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Great response. Thank you.

I think the "after 8pm" part is the secret sauce of not feeling guilty about how you're allocating your time. You've found a chunk of time that you really shouldn't be working on your startup anymore...and it's a time slot where most people are wasting time watching TV, drinking, etc. Keeping productive at that time is awesome.

I like this so much, I might give 8pm blogging a try.

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Just make sure to jot down every thought and elaboration of those thoughts as they come to you, no matter what time of day they come. Save post-8pm for going back and hashing them out into a full-on blog post.

Extremely important. The pieces will all come to you in little bits over time, until you have enough thoughts that you can form a longer story.

To manage it, I keep a _drafts folder in my Jekyll [1] repo which I quickly switch to and from using the project switcher in Sublime. And I use Squarespace Note [2] to jot down ideas from my phone if I have one while I'm going to sleep.

[1]: http://jekyllrb.com/

[2]: http://www.squarespace.com/apps/

Oh don't worry there's plenty of Seinfeld and PBR after 8pm too ;)

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