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Strangely enough, management may actually be better done on a maker's schedule. It's certainly no worse done. Office hours seem to work fine for all the start
by pg 17y ago
Strangely enough, management may actually be better done on a maker's schedule. It's certainly no worse done. Office hours seem to work fine for all the startups who want to talk to me. And in addition, compressing them all into the shortest time means that a group that shows up for an appointment during office hours is likely to meet several other groups of their peers while they're there. They invariably talk, and often end up helping one another.
Plus you're assuming that doing making work doesn't affect the quality of one's managing work. But that isn't true. Actively working on webapps myself makes me a much better advisor to startups doing it.
- thunk 17y ago"Management on a maker's schedule" is a powerful idea. Imagine the world under that paradigm. So much quieter. Unrelatedly, for some reason I'm leery of terms like 'office hours'. They seem ... infantilising. I guess 'office hours' is a precise description, though.
- pg 17y agoYeah, I don't love the term "office hours" either. It's not even correct, since people have actual appointments; they're just clumped together. But I got into the habit of calling this thing office hours, and it is probably too late to change now.