80% of the work you do is pointless

Amando Abreu
3 min readApr 11, 2018

This is the story of Abby. She quit her job to start her own company, and without knowing, she spent most of her days doing useless work. She did so much useless work that she ended up burning herself out, and when the real work came along she had run out of personal funds and needed to start a normal job again.

I will show what she did, why she did it, and what she should have done instead. This is basically a mini how-to guide for anyone interested in creating their own “startup”.

Some principles and concepts

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