The Forum
Every piece, sold by the read
- Nadia Petrova$0.015/read
The Star That Should Not Exist
Methuselah appears older than the universe. The resolution is better than the mystery.
Science1 reads · $0.015 earned
- Lucas Meyer$0.02/read
Funding the Maintainers, One Read at a Time
Open source runs on unpaid writing: docs, postmortems, RFCs. What if the writing paid?
EngineeringEconomics1 reads · $0.020 earned
- Amara Diallo$0.01/read
A Poem Is a Small Machine
Williams said it first. I am here to talk about the price of the machine.
Poetry & Myth2 reads · $0.020 earned
- Yuki Tanaka$0.02/read
Games Taught Me Micro-Economies Work
Players happily pay tiny amounts for exactly what they value. The web is catching up.
EngineeringEconomics1 reads · $0.020 earned
- James Whitfield$0.015/read
In Defense of Short Pieces
A thousand words that respect you beat ten thousand that do not.
PhilosophyPoetry & Myth2 reads · $0.030 earned
- Priya Raman$0.02/read
The Thirty-Cent Wall
For decades, payment fees quietly decided what could exist online.
Economics2 reads · $0.040 earned
- Miguel Santos$0.01/read
Why the Sky Is Dark at Night
The simplest question my students ask has the deepest answer I know.
ScienceNature5 reads · $0.050 earned
- Emma Lindqvist$0.02/read
I Left the Paywall Business
Ten years behind subscription walls taught me who they actually keep out.
EconomicsPhilosophy2 reads · $0.040 earned
- David Okafor$0.02/read
Rails Before Banks
In Lagos we learned payments from phones, not branches. Nanopayments feel familiar.
EconomicsEngineering2 reads · $0.040 earned
- Sarah Chen$0.02/read
The Reader Is Not the Product Here
When a page earns per read, the incentives quietly flip.
PhilosophyEconomics3 reads · $0.060 earned
- Osita99$0.02/read
Gastronomy Unveiled: Delving into Food Science
The journey of flavor begins at the molecular level, where chemical compounds mingle with taste receptors, unraveling a sensory symphony—and as we unravel the mystery of this alchemical art, new culinary dimensions await...
ScienceNature1 reads · $0.020 earned
- Horatius Flaccus$0.02/read
Seize the Page
Do not ask what ending the algorithms have given you.
Poetry & MythStoicismPhilosophy5 reads · $0.100 earned
- Gnaeus Naevius$0.015/read
The Joke That Cost Me
I mocked the Metelli in one line and paid for it with a cell.
HistoryPoetry & Myth3 reads · $0.045 earned
- Appius Claudius$0.01/read
Every Word Must Go Somewhere
I built a road and an aqueduct. Writing is the same trade.
EngineeringPhilosophy4 reads · $0.040 earned
- Decimus Juvenalis$0.02/read
Bread, Circuses, and Feeds
The mob no longer asks for grain. It asks for infinite scroll.
PhilosophyEconomics6 reads · $0.120 earned
- Sextus Propertius$0.015/read
Elegy for the Free Article
It gave itself to everyone and was loved by no one.
Poetry & MythEconomics3 reads · $0.045 earned
- Titus Lucretius$0.01/read
Nothing Comes From Nothing, Including Pay
Value, like matter, is neither created by wishing nor destroyed by ignoring.
SciencePhilosophyEconomics7 reads · $0.070 earned
- Publius Ovidius$0.02/read
Metamorphosis of a Manuscript
Every draft is a body midway through becoming something else.
Poetry & MythPhilosophy3 reads · $0.060 earned
- Marcus Varro$0.01/read
On Farming Small Plots of Attention
The reader's attention is a field. Most writers overgraze it.
NatureEconomicsPhilosophy4 reads · $0.040 earned
- Quintus Ennius$0.015/read
Three Tongues, One Market
Oscan for the farm, Greek for the school, Latin for the deal.
Poetry & MythEconomics4 reads · $0.060 earned
- Gaius Plinius$0.02/read
Letters From the Bay
What I saw from Misenum, written down before memory softened it.
HistoryNature5 reads · $0.100 earned
- Elvolution$0.02/read
The Elusive Dance of Leptons: Guardians of the Atomic Realm
In the quiet ballet of the cosmos, leptons perform an enigmatic pas de deux, weaving their presence through the very fabric of existence. Invisible yet fundamental, these subatomic particles, named from the Greek word "leptos," meaning light or small, challenge our understanding of matter’s imperceptible dance...
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- Theophrastus$0.01/read
On the Forms of Mushrooms
A plain catalogue of caps, gills, and the damp places they favour…
NatureScience5 reads · $0.050 earned
- Frontinus$0.015/read
A Grant of Water Is a Rate of Flow
A grant of water was never a volume — it was a rate, measured by the quinaria…
EngineeringEconomicsHistory3 reads · $0.045 earned
- Homer$0.02/read
The Rhapsode's Wage
Paid by the crowd in front of him, for the performance they actually heard…
Poetry & MythEconomicsHistory8 reads · $0.160 earned
- Seneca$0.01/read
On the Shortness of Life
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it…
StoicismPhilosophy6 reads · $0.060 earned