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		abstractbill on Oct 29, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I'm Bootstrapping a Startup While Raising Thre... I used to think I needed long uninterrupted stretches of time to do good work. It turns out I was wrong. I'm working on a side-project now, putting in less than half an hour a day (but making sure to do it every day). Strangely enough I'm making better progress in many ways than when I had the luxury of spending many hours on side-projects. I'm blogging on my progress, if anyone is interested: http://prehacked.com (read http://prehacked.com/pages/about-this-blog-53 to get an idea of what I'm working on).

pbhjpbhj on Oct 29, 2010 [–]

>I'm working on a side-project now, putting in less than half an hour a day

Is that including thinking time? Do you have commuting time or some other time without responsibility for other people in which to think?

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