Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
July 30th, 2009 | Posted in blog 1 Comment »
I love this essay. Paul Graham distinguishes between the “maker’s schedule” and the “manager’s schedule” and talks about the dilemma between offending someone or losing half a day’s work. Fits me perfectly, especially since some of my meetings are half a mile away. His point about the difficulty of switching modes is right on: “For someone on the maker’s schedule, having a meeting is like throwing an exception. It doesn’t merely cause you to switch from one task to another; it changes the mode in which you work.”
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Very interesting article. Of course, Graham seems to be quite focussed on meetings where all participants seem to be in the same office and certainly doesn’t talk about different time zones. Even though I’m now only mainly dealing with intra-Australian time zones, what’s the start or end of the work day for some of my team is before work or mid-afternoon for others. I wonder how you can try to schedule maker’s meetings across time zones?