Another month has gone by and what an incredible month it was!

For the month of February 2016

• I posted 12 times
• I wrote eight original articles
• Conservatively speaking (I rounded all word totals down) I wrote over 11,000 words, not including blog updates and lazy posts!
• Promoted to and through the usual suspects of subreddits, Facebook pages and Twitter streams but the views were overall helped the most from the r/philosophy post I mentioned the in the last update. Thanks again for that!
• Around 3,300 views and over 2000 unique viewers! (The previous month had nearly 4000 views)
• The site averaged 750 views a week which is a slight downgrade from the previous month’s views (900) and we’ll get to why in a minute or two.
• Reddit remains my biggest referral at 759 views with search engines at 718 views, in terms of search engines, Google is naturally the strong leader at 654 views all by itself.
• Speaking of searching, the the search term “boredom” was searched the most at 19 times and happiness and hard work are tied for second at 17 times.
• The United States was (unsurprisingly) the country this site gets most of its visitors from. More specifically, the US had close to 2000 views while the UK and Canada were both close to each other in the 200s. Australia and Germany are both in the 100s. Lower that we have a bonafide smorgasbord of different countries.
• Within that smorgasbord of different countries it gets especially interesting once we get into the countries that gave the site less than 10 views over the course of a month. At that point I saw that people from Pakistan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka, South Korea and many others! Obviously those numbers are really low but just the fact that people from all around the world are reading this site is amazing! Thank you!
• In February the site averaged 100 views a day (116 in February and 127 in January to be more specific) and averages around 120 for the year so far!
• In two months we have over half of the views that I made in one year during 2015!
• I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the incredible stats I’m getting right now by the fine folks at the SimpleLiving subreddit!
• In addition, due to these amazing stats I have almost reached the same amount of views I got in 2015 in total! I can’t thank y’all enough!

As these Patreons updates keep progressing I’ll try to improve how I do my reporting. As you may notice, I’m starting to develop some patters; ‘ll start with how many posts, how many of them were original posts and move from there into views, referrals, some overall site news, etc.

Now, speaking to those weekly views and slightly lower daily views, the issue there was that Liberty Forum happened and I had to do a talk on prison abolition. This ended up taking me about a week to write and soo in that time I simply couldn’t afford to write anything for Abolish Work.

So that explains some of the lower stats for the month, but I don’t mean to sound like I’m complaining. To me, it’s incredible the amount of attention this site is achieving! I never thought this site could influence people, start discussions on far-reaching corners of the internet (from Reddit to Twitter to Facebook to even 8Chan…) or do half of the amazing things it’s currently doing. I’m really grateful for it.

When I wasn’t writing for Abolish Work I was writing for the Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS)!

So let’s see what I accomplished there in February:

• You Cannot Exonerate Prisons
• Tutwiler Prison Will Live on
• Keep the State out of the Bathrooms, Let the Transgender Community in!

So three op-eds and only three instead of four because (again) I was working on my prison abolition paper for AltExpo.

Which, if you aren’t aware, is an event that some friends and I put on alongside libertarian events like Liberty Forum to push the libertarian scene towards alternatives, including more leftist ones.

Speaking of left, I also published my 14 Questions and Answers on Left-Libertarianism which got some great stats via Facebook and revitalized my Anarchist Township a bit. It generated a lot of dialogue (mostly good though some bad) and I’m excited to release my next project sometime (hopefully) in mid-March…

And of course, I can’t go without mentioning that I will be releasing a book later this year!

It’ll be called Instead of a Book, by a Man too Lazy to Write One: Lazy Expositions of Ergophobia

The title modeled after one of my favorite thinkers, Benjamin Tucker and his book, Instead of a Book, by a Man too Busy to Write One: A Fragmentary Exposition of Philosophical Anarchism. I am thrilled to say that I’ve already figured out what I want for my copyright labeling (none), I’ve got the acknowledgements mostly done, the foreword is currently being worked on by my friend David S. D’Amato and I shall begin work on the introduction today!

I’m currently making a little less than $30 and am (full disclosure here) spending most of it on the production of my book and not the podcast. If I end up getting $50 a month then I will attempt to change gears and do both as much as possible. But until then I’ve got to focus on paying any writers who I want to add to the book if they’re not already in it.

And if you would like to write in the book feel free to send me an email at voyagingman2010@yahoo.com

March has already started off as an incredible month and I’m excited to see how it’ll go from here!

If you’d like to support me more you can donate $1 or $5 a month to my Patreon campaign, thanks! There are some great rewards if you go higher than that so feel free to check those out as well!

Lastly, and most importantly, I’d like to thank Eben, Paula, James, David and Ben for all being my patrons!