Last week I released the Field Note on Smil’s How The World Really Works and that release marked release number 31, the first in 2026 and following thirty Field Notes in 2025. I started Sunchaser with a purpose: to share ideas on wisdom, health, and wealth; I love every moment I spend reading books and extracting ideas to share with you.
When I started, I had taken a career break to, first, spend time with family and travel, and second, build Sunchaser to a base level of quality. Every two weeks, I had planned to release one high-quality Field Note on an important non-fiction book of our times. And I had created my paid subscription tier, Sunchaser Crew, at $9 a month, to make it sustainable. Today, however, I hold a full-time job and I have realised that it is very hard to keep up both the high-quality and twice-a-month release cadence at the same time. And so I have to take a decision.
The decision I’ve taken is that a new Field Note shall now be released once a month instead of two times a month. This will enable me to deliver the same quality of work that you have come to expect from Sunchaser. Besides, I can see from readership stats that given busy schedules, most of you take longer than two weeks to complete a Field Note.
But it is not fair for me to charge the same amount for half the quantity, and so, I have also decided to reduce the monthly subscription price for Sunchaser Crew to $3 a month, technically more than a 50% reduction in price, but that’s really how much I love reading and sharing knowledge.
I might have written and published online for free, but I won’t do that, not because I want to make money, but because having skin in the game, as Nassim Taleb has told us, is important – by paying for Sunchaser Crew access you are more likely to read what you pay for – and that is the first step in the journey to health, wealth, and wisdom. Besides, it is not fair to the work: Giving a piece of work that often takes me more than 30 hours to make for free just cheapens it.
I absolutely love reading and sharing knowledge from books, and I hope to continue that for as long as I am alive. It is my Good Work. And I hope you will join me in the chase.
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Aviral Prakash
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