- Tags:: 🗞️Articles , Engineering Management
- Author:: Paul Graham
- Link:: Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
- Source date:: 2009-07-01
- Finished date:: 2015-01-01
More than who? Only people that don’t have cognitive works (and managers should too).
One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they’re on a different type of schedule from other people. Meetings cost them more. (View Highlight)
A manager has to think and writing is thinking…
You can’t write or program well in units of an hour. That’s barely enough time to get started. (View Highlight)
Each type of schedule works fine by itself. Problems arise when they meet. (View Highlight)
I wouldn’t be surprised if there start to be more companies like us. I suspect founders may increasingly be able to resist, or at least postpone, turning into managers (View Highlight)
How do we manage to advise so many startups on the maker’s schedule? By using the classic device for simulating the manager’s schedule within the maker’s: office hours. (View Highlight)