Stop reading, start doing. Imagine someone asks how do I train to run a marathon? Start by running 1 minute a day and add a minute every few days, after 2-3 y

Stop reading, start doing. Imagine someone asks how do I train to run a marathon? Start by running 1 minute a day and add a minute every few days, after 2-3 years you'll be running long enough to run a marathon. There is no substitute for doing, there are no shortcuts, there is no miracle pill (well, ADHD meds may help...) You must actively decide that your sideprojects are more important than whatever else you are doing, speaking of which now that my two kids are asleep, and my fiance is reading, it's time for me to stop commenting on HN and start working on my side project. Time is not something that is lost or found, you have a fixed finite amount of it, and it is continually decreasing the only thing you can do is choose what you do with it.