In thirty years’ time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed. — RICHARD BRANSON… - David Heinemeier Hansson

The answer is not more hours, it's less bullshit.

My whole thing was, if I can put in 5 percent of the effort of somebody getting an A, and I can get a C minus, that’s amazing,” he explains. “It’s certainly good enough, right? [Then] I can take the other 95 percent of the time and invest it in something I really care about.

Sometimes, distractions can actually serve a purpose. Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, they warn us — when we feel ourselves regularly succumbing to them — that our work is not well defined, or our tasks are menial, or the whole project we’re engaged in is fundamentally pointless.