managers vs. makers
I guess I never realized but even as a manager I was on a makers schedule. I hate meetings. The only meetings I can tolerate are ones where I can dial in from my desk; this allows me to actually do work. I’ve gotten very good at listening to one thing and typing another thing. I found this article by Paul Graham about the different schedules that managers and programmers (makers) to be spot on. Apparently, I am a programmer at heart.
“One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they’re on a different type of schedule from other people. Meetings cost them more.There are two types of schedule, which I’ll call the manager’s schedule and the maker’s schedule. The manager’s schedule is for bosses. It’s embodied in the traditional appointment book, with each day cut into one hour intervals…But there’s another way of using time that’s common among people who make things, like programmers and writers. They generally prefer to use time in units of half a day at least. You can’t write or program well in units of an hour. That’s barely enough time to get started…”Read the rest here.
