~5 years ago, I read this essay by @paulg that splits the world into 2 different types of people: MANAGERS (those that have their day spent into 30 min increments of meetings) & MAKERS (those whose productivity is destroyed by one 30 min meeting a day)
http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html …
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Paul's description spoke to so many of my blown "work days": "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." 3/
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& if you're a maker--someone whose core work involves holding 70 pg law review piece or 500 lines of code in your head--it can also be debilitating to even have something *at the end* of that day. Because when you *finally* hit a groove, you might be forced to break out of it 4/
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The essay changed the way I schedule my life. As a professor, I am lucky to have a lot of latitude in this regard, & understand others might not have the same, but I still think the things I've learned from adopting this theory are useful for anyone's productivity. 5/
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(1) I pick one day a week that is organically not going to be a "Manager Day" & I schedule all of my calls, all my banking & expenses filing, all my doctor appointments, all my reading & giving feedback on people's papers, all my little tasks for that day. 6/
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(2) The days that aren't Manager Days are sacred *Maker Days.* I put them in my calendar as such. I do my damndest to keep everything off the calendar on those days so I can write or outline or read or just do whatever. 7/
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(3) Of course this doesn't always work out. Often, a Maker Day is unproductive. I just can't feel it or get motivated to write. Sometimes a Maker Day turns to Manager Day if breaking news requires a lot of calls w/journos. 8/
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When this happens: *I DO NOT BEAT MYSELF UP. BEATING YOURSELF UP IS A WASTE OF TIME & ENERGY* Instead, I accept the day isn't what I hoped & pivot to make it productive in a diff way: writing a smaller piece, or something that comes easily; self-care by taking a run. 9/
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Reorganizing my time to understand what my job is (80% maker, 20% manager) + not spiraling when the world forces my day outside of my control have been huge for me. I have a big caveat to all of this: which is that I do not have kids & I understand they change everything. 10/
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But even with kids, I think this kind of heuristic can be useful and I'm sure it's already represented in spouse taking "writing days" so the other can be on "kid duty" etc. But I still hope the theoretical framing can help to organize! /fin 11/11
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