When you build a product or service, you make the call on hundreds of tiny decisions each day. If you’re solving someone else’s problem, you’re const… - Jason Fried

If you're solving someone else's problem, you're constantly stabbing in the dark. When you solve your own problem, the light comes on.

Easy. Easy is a word that’s used to describe other people’s jobs. “That should be easy for you to do, right?” But notice how rarely people describe their own tasks as easy. For you, it’s “Let me look into it” — but for others, it’s “Get it done.

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.

long commutes make you fat, stressed, and miserable. Even short commutes stab at your happiness.