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.

It’s JOMO that lets you turn off the firehose of information and chatter and interruptions to actually get the right shit done. It’s JOMO that lets you catch up on what happened today as a single summary email tomorrow morning rather than with a drip-drip-drip feed throughout the day.

Unless you’re a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

When we start designing something, we sketch out ideas with a big, thick Sharpie marker, instead of a ballpoint pen. Why? Pen points are too fine. They’re too high-resolution. They encourage you to worry about things that you shouldn’t worry about yet, like perfecting the shading or whether to use a dotted or dashed line. You end up focusing on things that should still be out of focus.