He cancelled the internet at home and now walks to a coffee shop twice a day to check email, which tells you most of what you need to know about the discipline problem this blog keeps worrying at. Dirk writes for the person who is chairman, accountant, marketer and janitor of the same one-person business, and who loses two hours to an interesting advert while looking for something else entirely.
Focus comes up again and again. Plan the work, work the plan, and notice the exact moment attention slips. There are posts on setting goals properly, on getting more done, and on the harder question of how to take more days off without everything stalling.
He also serialises The Science of Getting Rich, chapter by chapter, and treats it as a text to work through rather than a slogan to quote.
One post begins with a conversation on a terrace during the monsoon and ends up being about email lists. Read that to see how he thinks, then take the focus posts seriously if your afternoons keep disappearing.