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TimothySykes [10749]

21-Aug-08

Damn It Feels Dumb To Be A Published Author

Hey, I like reading the blog, Leveraged Sellout. No matter that he writes about as often as a penny stock isn’t a fraud, aka rarely, the guy’s funny and entertaining.

I mean back when I was a media whore, I was pretty jealous when over a year ago Businessweek called him “The Borat Of Wall Street” (see article HERE), but now I’ve outgrown that stage so all I can take out of that article is the fact that Businessweek was impressed by his 120,000 monthly page views, which is basically a week’s work for me now.

And this, in a nutshell, is the problem with publishing books through traditional methods–it takes forever aka 2 years. 120k views might’ve been good for a business blog back in early 2007, but now it’s shit. And Leveraged Sellout, real name Amit Chatwani’s, amazingly inaccurate titled new book, “Damn It Feels Good To Be A Banker“, which I haven’t read, nor have the time to, nor really care to, is obsolete: … [visit site to read more]