Questions you can wait hours to learn the answers to are fine to put in an email. Questions that require answers in the next few minutes can go into … - Jason Fried

That’s the great irony of letting passionate people work from home. A manager’s natural instinct is to worry about his workers not getting enough work done, but the real threat is that too much will likely get done. And because the manager isn’t sitting across from his worker anymore, he can’t look in the person’s eyes and see burnout.

Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier.

Time-management hacks, life hacks, sleep hacks, work hacks. These all reflect an obsession with trying to squeeze more time out of the day, but rearranging your daily patterns to find more time for work isn’t the problem. Too much shit to do is the problem.