Pessimism is the path to happiness. Either you have the pleasure of being correct, or you are delightfully surprised. I had hoped that the Run Your Own Mail Server Kickstarter might bring in several thousand dollars. I dreamed that if I was lucky, over the twenty days it would raise as much as the Prohibition Orcs Kickstarter. After all, this book had been heavily sponsored. I had exhausted my market. But Kickstarter is a discovery platform, and was worth trying. One week into this thing and it’...