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On one level, money is much less motivational to me than praise. On another level, there is a direct path between "Be generous with what I know" and "Sell more stuff." See the iceberg part of the speech. Every time I am cited I get a bit better SEO juice for bingo.

Similarly, some smart people trust me regarding knowledge, execution ability, and character. This is largely a function of being generous with what I know. If you were hypothetically in Ogaki and bought me coffee, I would happily talk about your problems until I ran out of breath. There exist people who are happy to buy that, and they generally pay substantially more than coffee, for example to guarantee availability or reschedule the chat from ogaki to 18 hours east.