Ask yourself: When was the last time you had three or even four completely uninterrupted hours to yourself and your work? - Jason Fried

We’ve frequently been trapped by things that used to work well but no longer do.

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 an instant message. For crises that truly merit a sky-is-falling designation, you can use that old-fashioned invention called the telephone.

rearranging your daily patterns to find more time for work isn’t the problem. Too much shit to do is the problem.