Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
This essay—which I first came across via MFM last week—got some play on the internets today. Interestingly, I think it addresses a fundamental conflict that academics at major research institutions deal with everyday. Our days are constantly interrupted by classes and seminars to teach and various other service obligations. At the same time, either implicitly or explicitly, the principal endeavor we’re engaged in is research, which is a creative enterprise that requires contiguous and continuous stretches of time blocks.
