Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher, is credited with saying, “Nothing is permanent except change.” And thus it is on this blog and within Infinity Softworks.

Since January 1, 2012, when I made a commitment to write every day excluding weekends and a mini-vacation between Christmas and New Year’s, I have written 321 posts. That’s over 325 total week days during that time period.

For most of it I was very happy with the experiment. My goal was to only include posts where I could provide some accompanying commentary. But in the past few months, as constraints on my time have increased, I feel that has gotten harder to do and the strain of churning out a new post every day has caused me to get sloppy. As we were figuring things out last year, posting every day was a critical piece of my learning. But now, as we move from discovery to execution, the need isn’t as strong and the topics are harder to come by.

So I’m giving myself permission to stop writing every day. While this may mean I post more than once per day, it more likely means that there will be days when I don’t post at all. And if there are articles that I want to share but don’t have specific commentary, I might just save up a few and post them together like I did last week.

I hope you will continue visiting me here, reading what I write, and commenting more often!

Yesterday I posted a number of interesting business articles that I had saved away for a rainy day. Today I give you a backlog of “weekend reads” to peruse.

• The Day My Grandfather Groucho and I Saved ‘You Bet Your Life’ by Andy Marx: Fascinating story about one of the first and great all-time quiz shows.
  
• The Innocent Man (Part 1, Part 2) by Pamela Colloff: The story of a Texas man who spent 25 years in jail for not killing his wife. Couldn’t stop reading this one.
• We Are Alive by David Remnick: Bruce Springsteen grapples with the differences between the realities of his song material and his life at age 62.
• A Life Worth Ending by Michael Wolff: Grappling with end-of-life issues and the nasty trade-offs in US medical care. My grandmother is at this stage so the article really hit home.
• The Once and Future Liberalism by Walter Russell Mead: Thought-provoking piece on US history. We are a nation built on liberal ideas, he argues, whether Democrat or Republican.
• Not Fade Away by Robert Kagan: Interesting argument on why the economic death of the US is greatly exaggerated.

Hope you’ve got some time to read this weekend. Some are really long but all of them were fascinating, sometimes thought-provoking articles. If you have time for only one, make it The Innocent Man. Unbelievable article. I guarantee you won’t be able to put it down.