If the boss is constantly pulling people off one project to chase another, nobody’s going to get anything done. - Jason Fried

It was amazing that it could be done, but we had forgotten to ask whether it should be done.

As Sir Richard Branson commented in his ode to working remotely: “To successfully work with other people, you have to trust each other. A big part of this is trusting people to get their work done wherever they are, without supervision.”fn3

Workaholics aren’t heroes. They don’t save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is already home because she figured out a faster way to get things done.