I have mixed feelings about this. The only time I block on my calendar now is my lunch. Years ago I would block 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the after

I have mixed feelings about this. The only time I block on my calendar now is my lunch. Years ago I would block 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon to "work" but as I progressed my "work" began to shift, from just building things to talking to customers and then eventually to talking to everyone, which means my day went from 0-1 meeting per day, to 1-2 + 3-5 phone calls with customers, to eventually 4-8 meetings per day and my production of software diminished to almost nil. It was basically meetings all day (which I honestly didn't mind, so long as they provided food over my lunch break). Now I'm in a more development focused role, where I have almost no meetings, but I'm usually doing 1:1 with manager for 4-6 hours per day over the phone. So I get less done, but it is expected as "we aren't just hurling code, we are building software". So I get the equivalent of between 0-2 hours of software development done each day.