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It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

- Jason Fried
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The risk of relying on a handful of customers is not just financial. Your product also is at risk when you're at the mercy of a few big spenders. When any one customer pays you significantly more than the others, your product inevitably ends up catering mostly to that customer's specific needs.

It's like, the front door of the office is like a Cuisinart, and you walk in, and your day is shredded to bits because you have 15 minutes here, 30 minutes there, and something else happens, you're pulled off your work, then you have 20 minutes, then it's lunch, then you have something else to do.

I think that sleep and work are very closely related - not because you can work while you're sleeping and sleep while you're working. That's not really what I mean. I'm talking specifically about the fact that sleep and work are phase-based, or stage-based, events.

A diverse customer base helps insulate you; a few large accounts can leave you vulnerable to their whims.

Unlike a goldfish, a computer can't really do anything without you telling it exactly what you want it to do.

Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.

Even companies that do big business online struggle to be noticed by Google users. The Web, after all, is home to some 120 million Internet domains and tens of billions of indexed pages. But every company, big or small, can draw more Google traffic by using search-engine optimization - SEO, for short.

Nearly every boss has said it. And just about every employee has heard it. Yet it's one of the most meaningless lines ever spoken in the office: 'My door is always open.'

You have to live with your decisions every day. Why live with one you're uneasy with? 'Because it'll make you money' is a common reply. But I don't think that's good enough.

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It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.