Many companies operate on a manager schedule with back-to-back meetings, which can be challenging for programmers. Programming in hour increments can be difficult and inefficient as it takes time to load programs into RAM. A great maker's schedule would consist of an uninterrupted eight-hour block of time. In contrast, business people can manage email in shorter increments. The importance of uninterrupted time for complex tasks was highlighted in a conversation with Emmett.

Most companies are set up around a manager schedule where you have a day packed with meeting after meeting.

And so if you're a programmer at a big company, you know, you'd have like an hour to program here and an hour to program there.

And it takes like an hour or 2 of looking at a program and figuring stuff out for it to get loaded into RAM.

Like if you have to program in hour increments, man, are you going to suck.

You constantly have to restart your state every time you program.

And so a great maker's schedule is something like an eight-hour uninterrupted block of time.

Which is so much different than the business guy.

You certainly can do email in 20-minute increments.

And so I remember having this conversation with Emmett where he said, Michael imagine that I'm doing ridiculously complicated word problems.

Once he said that it kind of caught me off guard.


Speaker 0: Most companies are set up around a manager schedule where you have a day packed with meeting after meeting. And so if you're a programmer at a big company, you know, you'd have like an hour to program here and an hour to program there. And it takes like an hour or 2 of looking at a program and figuring stuff out for it to get loaded into RAM. Like if you have to program in hour increments, man, are you going to suck. You constantly have to restart your state every time you program.

And so a great maker's schedule is something like an eight-hour uninterrupted block of time.

Speaker 1: Which is so much different than the business guy. You certainly can do email in 20-minute increments. And so I remember having this conversation with Emmett where he said, Michael imagine that I'm doing ridiculously complicated word problems. I would hate to be interrupted. Once he said that it kind of caught me off guard.

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