As a data point - I'm one of the people Patrick mentions. I like his writing a lot and would be very happy to see an 8k word essay from him every Friday. He's

As a data point - I'm one of the people Patrick mentions. I like his writing a lot and would be very happy to see an 8k word essay from him every Friday. He's on my very short list of 3 or so people who do email marketing particularly well. One of the other people on that list, incidentally, writes 200-ish word emails every day. I read everything she writes too. There's not a single optimal solution here. (I'm also very much looking forward to playing the game after reading that post. Given I'm not a professional programmer, I have very little desire to become one, I'm very happy in my current jobs, and I suspect Stockfighter is going to kick my ass until I can wear it like a hat, that's of dubious business value to Starfighter, but I guess I'll probably also recommend it to some folk who may be of more value...)