Focus
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The best time to stop a distraction is before it starts. The second best time is now.
Focus I was something like the tenth engineer hired at Facebook. When a bunch of us old-timers get together we love to dive into nostalgia around all the time we spent together. And people who weren’t there love to romanticize what they imagine must have been the halcyon days. But the truth is startup life was mostly pretty brutal. I probably worked 120 hours per week. I had no hobbies. I ate poorly and gained a lot of weight. I slept with my phone next to my head in case something broke, which happened several times a week. Even if nothing broke, I woke up every four hours for over a year bec
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