In the long run, work is not more important than sleep. - Jason Fried

If you let them, humans have an amazing power to live up to your high expectations of reasonableness and responsibility.

business battles serve as financial-page porn.

The solution: Break the big thing into smaller things. The smaller it is, the easier it is to estimate. You’re probably still going to get it wrong, but you’ll be a lot less wrong than if you estimated a big project. If something takes twice as long as you expected, better to have it be a small project that’s a couple weeks over rather than a long one that’s a couple months over.