[oskarth]

I thought this answer was interesting:

"I don't think I'm very efficient. I have two ways of getting work done. One is like during YC, the way I worked at YC is I was forced to. I had to set the application deadline, and then people would apply, and then there were all these applications that I had to respond to by a certain time, so I had to read them, and I knew if I read them badly we would get bad startups, so I tried really hard to read them well. So I set up this situation that forced me to work.

The other kind of work I do is like writing essays, and I do that involuntarily. I'm like walking down the street and the essay starts writing itself in my head. And so really I either force myself to work on less exciting things, or I can't help working on exciting things. I don't have any useful techniques for making myself efficient. If you work on things you like, you don't have to force yourself to be efficient."