<story><title>Don&apos;t. Waste. Time.</title><url>http://www.humbledmba.com/dont-waste-time</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edw519</author><text>When it comes to efficiency/effectiveness, I prefer to focus on &quot;Do&quot; instead of &quot;Don&apos;t&quot;.&lt;p&gt;Richard Hamming (from &quot;You and Your Research&quot;):&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  1. What are the most important problems in your field?
  2. Are you working on one of them?
  3. Why not?
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Paul Graham&apos;s (from &quot;Good and Bad Procrastination&quot;) generalization of Richard Hamming:&lt;p&gt;What&apos;s the best thing you could be working on, and why aren&apos;t you?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;edw519&apos;s generalization of Paul Graham:&lt;p&gt;Work on the most important thing until it&apos;s not the most important thing any more.&lt;p&gt;I have developed this excellent/horrible habit of not being able to focus on very much of anything if there was something more important hanging over my head.&lt;p&gt;Excellent in keeping me from trivial pursuits. Horrible at meal time, bed time, other people time. I&apos;m still a work in progress.</text></comment>
<story><title>Don&apos;t. Waste. Time.</title><url>http://www.humbledmba.com/dont-waste-time</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zacharycohn</author><text>Opened up HN. Saw this headline at #1. Posted this comment. Now I&apos;m closing HN and going back to work.</text></comment>