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Sustained exhaustion is not a badge of honor, it’s a mark of stupidity.
If it’s constantly crazy at work, we have two words for you: Fuck that. And two more: Enough already.
To get ours, we don’t need to take theirs.
Do we want to make things better? All the time. But do we want to maximize “better” through constantly chasing goals? No thanks.
The opportunity to do another good day’s work will come again tomorrow, even if you go home at a reasonable time.
Seeing a bad idea through just because at one point it sounded like a good idea is a tragic waste of energy and talent.
If you can’t fit everything you want to do within 40 hours per week, you need to get better at picking what to do, not work longer hours.
Not doing something that isn’t worth doing is a wonderful way to spend your time.
In almost every situation, the expectation of an immediate response is an unreasonable expectation.
Great work will fill the time allotted if you allow it to.
You have to keep asking yourself if the way you’re working today is the way you’d want to work in 10, 20, or 30 years. If not, now is the time to make a change, not “later.”
You probably aren’t ready to say no to all the things you’ll have to skip out on because you said yes to whatever it takes.
The only way to get more done is to have less to do.
Eliminate 7 of the 12 things, and you’ll have time left for the 5.
Any conversation with more than three people is typically a conversation with too many people.
Just like work expands to fill the time available, work expands to fill the team available.
crazy’s in the red. Calm’s in the black.
Cutting back when times are great is the luxury of a calm, profitable, and independent company.
