Sometimes I’ve found myself worrying that this new web site won’t make any money. Better-positioned and better-funded competitors could come along and the site might never take off. Come to think of it, there are already competitors.

This kind of worry comes up especially when I consider delaying the Ph.D. for a year to do this site. If the site never makes enough money for me to pay the rent, then I will have wasted a year of my life.

And then I realized: I want this web site to exist, badly enough that I’ll put it up whether it makes money or not.

Paul Graham mentioned at Startup School that this is actually a great competitive advantage: if you don’t give a damn about whether the thing makes money, you are much tougher than people who are only trying to turn a buck.

I am crazed wiki zealot, and this project is simply an opportunity to let that zealotry run wild. Maybe it will become financially self-supporting, maybe not.