This post will tell readers about my crowd source project to improve the Nuggets of Investing Wisdom for everyone. The project is to crowd source ideas not money. It will be based on the Wisdom of Crowds and benefits to all of collaboration.
The aim of this blog over the last six years has been to help readers become highly successful investors in common stocks. The 275 plus posts cover almost all topics readers need. The blog is all about investment process. Taken together, the posts are like a book on investing with over 500 pages. The wisdom in every post will still be valid ten or twenty years from now. Read all the posts and you will learn common stock investing from the greatest investors in history.
Crowd sourcing ideas
My crowd sourcing idea is that the best thing for readers and investors going forward is to make this comprehensive site the best it can possibly be for future readers. I think this can be done by crowd sourcing ideas and text revisions of existing posts. This is not a commercial project.
By far the largest number of readers today come from internet searches including AI queries. Five years ago, most readers came from my promotion of the blog through Twitter (X). This change became clear in September and October 2025 when we were travelling and I published no new posts. The traffic to the site continued, even increased, through searches. During this time I published no new posts and made no Tweets on X. Currently I get ten times blogsite traffic through Google searches, Google AI Overview, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot AI than from X. The site obviously has a high enough rating on, for example, Google algorithms, that readers from over fifty countries around the world visited the site during that period even though there were no new posts.
Challenge to readers
My challenge to readers is this. Let’s work together to make the site even better. We can do this if you are willing to contribute ideas and text revisions for amendments to any of the existing 275 plus posts. Or you may have ideas and text to contribute to a new post.
I will act as editor. If ideas and revision suggestions have merit, they will be added to existing posts or to new posts. For any additions or revisions that are made, the reader offering them will receive credit in the post as co-author. If anyone would prefer not to be shown as co-author with credit, I will respect their wishes.
I want to encourage a diversity of ideas. I’d be happy to receive unconventional suggestions. If I happen to think differently from a proposed idea or text revision, I would be happy to include the suggestion with an ‘on the one hand and on the other hand’ comment. Readers should feel comfortable sharing any idea without fear of judgment.
How it will work
Readers of any post, whether the post is recent or from several years ago, are invited to suggest improvements to a post (submissions). If they think the post could be improved with some additions, they can send me text to make the revisions. Write a paragraph or two or more if you wish. If you disagree with a post, send text that can be added to show the other side of the story. And so on. Proposed changes, additions, substitutions or deletions are welcome. Let me know your name, your country and where in your country you live and I can add that to your name in giving you credit, if you choose.
When a post has been revised, I will post notice of the revision and a link. I will report to readers of the progress of the project. I think at this point we have to think of it as a pilot project. It can be changed as necessary so as to benefit all readers.
As this pilot project works itself out, the number of new posts will be limited. Most of the posts should be improvements to existing posts through collaborative crowd sourcing with an updated publication date.
How to make submissions
Simply send me an email at rodney@investingmotherlode.com
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