The best manager I had never gave up on building things and getting deeply technical: he just spent half of his time asking around people if everything is good,

The best manager I had never gave up on building things and getting deeply technical: he just spent half of his time asking around people if everything is good, and whenever he saw that somebody is stuck, sat down together and helped debugging the problem (and maybe helped finding people getting it unstuck). About meetings: he put some ,,meeting''s in the calendar entry, becuase PMs loved taking his time unnecessarily (he was still available for meetings, just not all the time). As a high level example Elon Musk talks a lot about his managing style at Starbase in his interviews with Everyday Astronout, and it looks similar: he always goes to the place which is most critical for the product and looks at the technical issues.