David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

even three hours, four hours of concentrated, uninterrupted time every day would move to goals they truly care about way down the field.

Yes.

It keeps you honest because...

You can squander one day, you can squander two days.

But if I squander a whole week, I feel terrible.

Now, that's just some drive I have in me where I feel content and full of meaning if I actually do stuff that matters.

If I can look back upon the week and go like, that was a nice week.

Really, we moved forward.

Maybe we didn't get done, but we moved forward and everything got better.

And I think kids really help just time box things in that way.

And a lot of people need that because I find just so much of the celebration of overwork to be so tiresome.

Oh, I work 60 hours or 80 hours, 100 hours a week.

And just like, first of all, no, you don't.

No, you don't.

Like those 80 hours are full of all sorts of fluff that you label work, but that I would laugh at and that most people laugh at, that you would laugh at if you actually did the analysis of where is that time going.

Most of the important stuff that have to be done is done in these uninterrupted chunks of two hours here or four hours there or five hours there.

The hard part is making sure you get them in the whole piece.

So don't give me that.

There's time enough.

And also, what's so important that it ranks above continuing your lineage?