Jay Marcyes

There is also a Binary Bonsai blog post that talked about this link and had a lessons learned I liked:

Lessons learned: Laziness and short-sighted solutions have a way of
sticking around a lot longer than the reasons for which they were
chosen. When that happens it’s worth remembering that practical
solutions can win over idealogical solutions.

Pretty cool blog deidicated to all things neat.

Pretty decent quote and link blog, the problem I have with blogs like this (unless it is my own) is I never really go back on my own, and I didn't find the content compelling enough to add to my RSS reader, (I would have followed on Twitter though if it had a Twitter feed). I did like enough of the stuff to save the url.

Great post on the true price of overnight success. Best quote refers to blogging, but can be extracted to almost anything:

I often give aspiring bloggers this key piece of advice:
if you're starting a blog, don't expect anyone to read it for six
months. If you do, I can guarantee you will be sorely disappointed.
However, if you can stick to a posting schedule and produce one or two
quality posts every week for an entire calendar year... then, and only then, can you expect to see a trickle of readership

the extraction: choose something, and stick to it.

From The article, the part I found interesting:

Their recent working paper (pdf), which they presented at this weekend's ASSA conference (the yearly get-together where social scientists from around the world preview their research) in New Orleans, is based on surveys conducted with prostitutes and pimps in Chicago neighborhoods and incident data from the Chicago Police Department. The findings? Street prostitution yields an average wage of $27 an hour, hardly worth it considering the extraordinary occupational hazards.

What's particularly interesting is the authors' section on bargaining and the law. They estimate that roughly 3 percent of all tricks performed by prostitutes who aren't working with pimps are freebies given to police to avoid arrest. In fact, prostitutes get officially arrested only once per 450 tricks or so, leading the authors to conclude that "a prostitute is more likely to have sex with a police officer than to get officially arrested by one." When freebies given to gang members are factored in, about one in 20 tricks go solely for protection and the "privilege" of plying their trade.

The Freakonomics blog also mentions this about high-end prostitutes:

Ive found the higher-paid women are abused about twice per year by their clients. I define abuse as suffering physical pain that prevents them from working and that includes visits to the hospital. Of course, no one is going to feel sorry for people earning thousands of dollars, but that doesnt mean women avoid exploitation, violence, and danger altogether by making more money than they would on the streets.

I don't know why I find this interesting, but I do, and it makes for some interesting dinner conversation...