The Best Strawberries in Melbourne.
Usually, when I’m frantically checking my bank account, it’s because I lost money. Bitcoin investors know what I’m talking about.
Imagine my surprise early this week, as I scratched my head, wondering where this extra money was coming from.
And then it clicked.
My birthday.
I launched this newsletter on my birthday.
And most of you, my sugar mummies and daddies have stayed on.
Even after I knocked down the paywall and liberated my writing block.
To be honest, paywalls suck.
Imagine if this were real life, as I was revealing my favourite restaurant, or cooking tips, or the punchline to my joke, I take out a can and ask you to donate money to proceed.
It’s the cockblock to freedom of speech.
In the future, foreplay and intercourse will involve us tapping our credit cards on different parts of our body parts to remove the clothes.
Yet, consider the compelling counterargument:
Writers need to eat.
As waves of first-world teenagers are TikTok dancing for free online, not many people get that. Well, maybe they do, but they don’t think writers deserve to be paid. It’s a long and winding road of education.
Anyway, thank you for not being like those people.
Thank you for the consistent support for my inconsistent writing(?).
Now let me tell you where to get the BEST strawberries in Melbourne.
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