Making things needs long, unbroken time.
Not an hour sliced by meetings.
Not a morning full of "quick" questions.
One deep, quiet block
where the hard thing
can finally open up.
The manager's day is different —
built of small slots,
switches, check-ins.
That's fine for managing.
It's poison for making.
The trouble starts
when a maker
is forced to live
on a manager's calendar.
Every interruption
doesn't cost you the interruption.
It costs you the climb back,
the twenty minutes
of finding the thread again.
So guard one block a day.
No meetings. No pings.
Just the work that only happens
when nothing else is allowed in.
You don't need more hours.
You need a few of them
whole.
– Serguey Asael Shinder
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