So Jason recently posted a review of how his fundraising drive went. Apparently he did quite well and I'm happy for him. I hope his adventure in audience-supported blogging succeeds, and I'm glad to be a contributor.

Jason's a pretty modest guy, and despire what I'm sure was a lot of pressure by the unseen masses to reveal the absolute magnitude of his fundraising income, he chose instead to provide us with the following graph:

Now he explicitly indicates that this plot is not to scale and was not generated from actual data, so much of the following commentary is largely irrelevant...
but I wanted to share something about this graph that just give me the giggles.

It appears that the comfort zone has a maximum! Apparently, beyond 1/2 of his previous salary would give him the willies. Though it is not labeled, I like to think of the region extending above the blue area as The Uncomfortable Zone.

Basically, the entire "content" of this plot can be reduced to: "I made most of my money early-on, with diminishing returns as time progressed. I didn't quite make my goal but was close enough." Everything else is meaningless eye candy. SCIENCE!! Guides-to-the-eye overlayed on actual data are frowned upon as it is; a non-scaled trendline with no data? tsk-tsk, physics degree-holding Jason... I'm telling Feller!