Brandon Donnelly
Brandon Donnelly
Blocking time for ambitious projects
Back in 2016, I wrote a post called "Manager vs. maker," where I cited an essay by Paul Graham that talks about these two modes of working. To quickly summarize, the manager's schedule is for bosses. It's a calendar broken down into units of an hour that gets filled with lots of calls and meetings. Things are said, and then the manager moves onto the next appointment. Makers, on the other hand, can't operate in units of an hour. If you write, program, design buildings, create financial models...