All those irksome jobs you don’t like… answering emails, bookkeeping, taxes, budgeting, fill-in-the-blank… don’t skip them. They might not be your favourite but fail to do them and you’ll find out how much they matter. In a way doing the admin work keeps you from going blind. It means you know what’s happening and can react quickly to anything nasty that pops up. Skip it and you might just have set yourself up for a crash.