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To me, the occasional two-day road trip is necessary to preserve my sanity. Even if it's based on a thinly veiled excuse.

While I think it's important not to waste time away on twitter, reddit, hackernews et al: if you start running a tally of how much $$$ every one of your waking hours is worth, you'll drive yourself crazy.

A related issue I'm having right now though - I only want to spend my productive hours creating and developing. I don't want to do the "social media expert" work as well (test-marketing and promoting my sites, etc.) I feel that my "developer hours" are worth considerably more than the non-development work, especially given that I'm not very good at the latter. I've been thinking how I could engage my unemployed friends to help me out with testing, promoting, etc. and make it a fair deal (based on future success/web statistics) but haven't gotten very far.