The Nerdwriter is a weekly web series that aims to cultivate worldview.

I think those two words sum up the project nicely. Worldview is a particular philosophy of life. It suggests a commitment to the well-rounded individual, to the intellectual life. At The Nerdwriter, we follow the advice of Voltaire and "cultivate our gardens."

I'll keep it simple. My name is Evan Puschak. I studied film production at Boston University and I've been making videos as The Nerdwriter since 2011. Early on, my video on The K.I.N.D. Fund ended up getting me a job at MSNBC, so I moved to New York City. Three years later, The Discovery Channel asked me to move to San Francisco, and write/host a show on their digital network called Seeker Daily. After launching a successful show for Discovery, I left to pursue The Nerdwriter full time. I've never been happier.

The Nerdwriter covers a wide variety of topics. I believe life is philosophical, political, moral, psychological, financial, artistic, scientific, and that what is worth knowing is worth entwining into a comprehensive web. Past topics include Bookstores, The Diderot Effect, Free Will, Video Games, Social Media, Kintsugi and Reddit.

I also do a series called Understanding Art, where I give in-depth analyses of artworks -- films, paintings, poems, etc.

I release a video every Wednesday, so no more than once a week.

Pledges go into The Nerdwriter project – into equipment, software and, most importantly, time to research, write, film and edit. The Nerdwriter is my full time job, so the money I make from this project is my income.

Here’s my normal schedule: it takes days to a couple weeks to research and write a video. It takes a day to film, and 8-10 hours (spread out over 3 days) to edit. Overall, I'd say each video takes 40-50 hours to make. Every dollar given to this projects frees me up a little more to focus on making the best content I can.

The Nerdwriter is written, produced, filmed and edited by me alone and my income from this channel comes in three ways.

First and most importantly: through Patreon pledges. This is my most stable form of income, and it comprises the vast majority of what I make. Second, I make money via ad revenue on my videos. This is typically a relatively small number per month (even for larger YouTubers). Third, I make money from sponsorships. I've only had a few of these, and I negotiate them the same way every time: it has to be a product or service I sympathize with, and the company in question can have no editorial influence whatsoever in the content of the video. Sponsorships usually appear on endscreens a few seconds after the video proper is completed.

Yeah – THANK YOU!! The Nerdwriter simply would not be possible without you.