Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

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…

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…

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;…

These chunks of time are at the end of my working day, and I wrote a signup program that ensures all the appointments within a given set of office…

When we were working on our own startup , back in the 90s, I evolved another trick for partitioning the day. I used to program from dinner till about…

Business people in Silicon Valley (and the whole world, for that matter) have speculative meetings all the time. They're effectively free if you're…