Knowing when to stop

Matt Raible: I wish I didn't have to work Fridays! Otherwise, last week, I found this rabbit hole of one blog post that spawned six others. I was thinking, "Oh my God! I've got to update them all!"

I did spend a day doing it and I only did a couple. I decided that I had to leave the rest because no one is really going to notice if they've been updated or not. I do get things like that that crop up and I feel that I need to work that night, but then I tell myself that I don't need to. No one cares: only I care. My team doesn't care and my company doesn't care.

One of the things that I've started doing is not even opening my emails. On Mondays and Tuesdays, I tend to do blackout periods where I shut off email and Slack, so there's no way for people to get in touch with me. I put my phone in another room and that's how I get stuff done. If I can have those two productive days at the beginning of the...