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This post, especially the Joel Spolsky quote at the end, reminded me of the advice for new startups (especially bootstrapped ones): Don't do anything that doesn't help you get your first 10 customers.

For example, move a site from Linode to EC2? Doesn't get you a customer. Add a feature you think you'll need to the admin dashboard? Doesn't get you a customer. Finally write your landing page and start using adwords? Does help get customers.

I think this advice can be generalized to the common case: Is what I am doing right now really something that matters, or just something to do so that I can say it is done?