Every so often it is important to dust off the idea of personal scheduling throughout the day. I owe many thanks to the article “Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule” by Paul Graham. It has been influencing my thinking for awhile.
But the time has come to remind myself that it is impossible to build or write anything new and unique when there are not consistently 4 hour blocks of time on the calendar to do nothing but work either in solitude or with a group. People who manage and people who make are two different worlds.
Often meetings just show up without being grouped together to enable efficient use of the day. This creates an inefficient process for actually building stuff.
Schedule management is something that must be actively done and protected on a daily basis. Without active curation of your schedule it will move 100% in the direction of management. For some this is acceptable but for many of us there is still a desire to build what is still to come.
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