I’m going to try to be better about publishing my interesting links here. I’ve been putting them out through Twitter, but I’d rather have them somewhere I can archive them and not fear the memory hole. All links (of course) found through Serendeputy.

The Push-Button Web
Anil Dash does a great job outlining the next set of optimizations around notifications. My entire feed-fetching infrastructure may be obsolete by this time next year. And that would be a good thing.

Ask and it shall be given
Steve Blank on the need to ask when an entrepreneur.

Also, great comment that crystalizes something I’ve thought for a long time:

in a technology company it’s usually better to train a domain expert to become a marketer than to train an MBA to become a domain expert.

Does Silicon Valley noise detract from long-term value creation?
Andrew Chen writes about the differences between Seattle and Silicon Valley.

As an entrepreneur, I can’t help but look at the short-term choices that get made in an environment like this without some degree of disappointment. There are many brilliant people who could be trying to make the world for the better and really create long-term value, but instead they are engaged in a zero-sum game to extract as much value as possible from the world.

I’m desperately trying to stay focused on the long-term. The bank likes the short-term, though. We’ll see how it all turns out.

Maker’s schedule, manager’s schedule
This is the latest from Paul Graham, talking about how managers’ lives are ruled by the schedule and makers need unbroken blocks of time to accomplish anything.

This rings very true for me. When I was at Boston.com, I would often spend all day back to back to back in meetings. I used to come in at 7am in order to get a little work done before the day started. Now that I’m on my own, I’m able to block out two three-hour blocks a day for sitting and concentrating and building. It’s a luxury.

More: Antonio responds and the comments on Hacker News are worth reading.

Averse to change
Why do some people just never accept change?

Is it possible to live any sort of a life in these times without being in a near-contant state of flux? I don’t think I’ve had a good solid run of stability since the fall of 2002.

I could use a good rut.

But, one is unlikely to appear any time soon, so I might as well design my live to react well to unexpected change.

Malleability is a good strategy. Janet explains why.

As 20th century models falter and lose relevance, a question to ponder – one that may be more profound that how to save a failing bank or newspaper –  is what will happen as the gap widens between those who can change their minds and those who can’t?

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