* Tags:: #🗞️Articles , [[Engineering management|Engineering Management]] * Author:: [[Paul graham|Paul Graham]] * Link:: [Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule](http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html) * 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](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h0yxj8xrndj9a3yneaf1456y)) 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](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h0yxm98zhh78jgdr1wz9p077)) > Each type of schedule works fine by itself. Problems arise when they meet. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h0yxng29zeyr7wtsmg3bvfx6)) > 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](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h0yxyzhq2y3718bwgk9n2prz)) > 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](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h0yxzegm6x6hcstexa8cc9xf))