National Journal's Lucas Grindley chats up Cyrus Krohn, the former e-campaign director at the Republican National Committee who recently headed back to the West Coast tech world whence he came. There's some interesting stuff in there about how Krohn grew the RNC's email list -- organically and otherwise -- and on why joining a Facebook group made in your honor might not constitute lobbying for your job. But most interesting is what Krohn has to say is about the challenges of being a technologist trying to develop and deploy long-term projects while the political world around is thinking in terms of the two-year churn of the election cycle. (That's not a struggle that's limited to the right side of the political aisle, of course.) Give it a read.