What tasks stop you from working on your product?
tom_rath: The only tasks which I find stop me from working on my product are various administration and customer support chores.  The one-time items like incorporation are trivial in terms of time-cost.Being forced to step away from development has actually saved me more trouble that it's taken away.  Being forced to take a breather to tally up expenses or polish up some documentation takes my mind away from the development task at hand and helps give me a better perspective on things when I return.  On far more occasions than I'd care to admit, I'll find myself thinking about the 'absolutely essential' work I was intently doing to improve my product and realize it was either completely unnecessary or else could be done in a better manner.Those insights would not likely be gained if I had been focused entirely on development.  Mix it up.