Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)
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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)
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Re: Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)
#2Sourcegraph CEO here. I came across a product here on HN that is helping with the problem of being a maker at a company with meetings. It’s called Meetter (https://www.meetter.app/) and it lets you block off a specific hour each day/week for meetings instead of making your entire day open to scattered meetings. I am just speaking as a happy user and customer, I am not affiliated with them in any way.
Re: Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)
#3Re: Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)
#4Sourcegraph CEO here. I came across a product here on HN that is helping with the problem of being a maker at a company with meetings. It’s called Meetter ( https://www.meetter.app/ ) and it lets you block off a specific hour each day/week for meetings instead of making your entire day open to scattered meetings. I am just speaking as a happy user and customer, I am not affiliated with them in any way.
Thanks for sharing this. As the CEO of a company, did you introduce this to the rest of your company? How long have you been you using it? Also, previously, did you try the strategy of blocking time for yourself that prevents people from scheduling meetings with you during this "solo" time?
Re: Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)
#5Thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16922147 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10658187 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4512023 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=718279
Yes, but there's always new people popping up, and it's a useful concept to keep in mind, especially if you manage "makers".
Re: Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)
#6Thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16922147 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10658187 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4512023 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=718279
Yes, but there's always new people popping up, and it's a useful concept to keep in mind, especially if you manage "makers".
Just FYI: 'dang is one of the HN moderators, so I'm sure he's well aware. He (and others) often add links to old discussions not to say "this is a dupe, shouldn't be here", but as a way for people to easily find the old discussions if they care to read them.
Re: Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)
#7Sourcegraph CEO here. I came across a product here on HN that is helping with the problem of being a maker at a company with meetings. It’s called Meetter ( https://www.meetter.app/ ) and it lets you block off a specific hour each day/week for meetings instead of making your entire day open to scattered meetings. I am just speaking as a happy user and customer, I am not affiliated with them in any way.
i’m having trouble understanding how this could possibly be useful.
if you only want to meet 2 hr per day, you’re gonna have a very very hard time coordinating with others that have a different hour set aside.
and you could just block off all me time in your existing calendar anyway.
Re: Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)
#8Thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16922147 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10658187 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4512023 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=718279
Yes, but there's always new people popping up, and it's a useful concept to keep in mind, especially if you manage "makers".
yes but it’s hacker “news” not hacker “archives”. :)
Re: Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)
#9We built a tool around this essay to help better coordinate across maker and manager time: https://www.getclockwise.com/
At the core, it defragments your calendar, but it also provides a suite of utilities to help you better organize your time (color coding, Slack status, personal calendar sync, auto travel time, etc.). PG's essay has been a consistent point of inspiration for us.
Engineering teams at teams from 5 – 1000 use us. Give it a try and let me know what you think.
Re: Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)
#10Thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16922147 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10658187 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4512023 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=718279
Yes, but there's always new people popping up, and it's a useful concept to keep in mind, especially if you manage "makers".
Yes, but people enjoy reading previous discussions.