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Maker vs. Manager: How Your Schedule Can Make or Break You
When you’re done scheduling your day, every minute should be part of a block. You have, in effect, given every minute of your workday a job. Now as you go through your day, use this schedule to guide you.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Then carefully tabulate the 8 to 10 hours that you have available each day for economic productivity. Find out whether your efforts were driven by your plans and your agenda or whether you were responding haphazardly to random stimuli.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in. Plus you have to remember to go to the meeting. That's no problem for someone on the manager's schedule. There's always something coming on the next hour; the only... See more
Paul Graham • Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
“Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule” by Paul Graham of Y Combinator