Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

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</td > --> "...the mere consciousness of an engagement will sometimes worry a whole day." – Charles Dickens July 2009 One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they're on a different type of schedule from other people.

</td> --> “...仅仅意识到订婚有时就会担心一整天。” Charles Dickens 2009 年 7 月 程序员如此不喜欢开会的原因之一是他们的日程安排与其他人不同。

Meetings cost them more.

会议成本更高。

There are two types of schedule, which I'll call the manager's

有两种类型的日程安排，我将其称为经理的日程安排

schedule and the maker's schedule.

时间表和制造商的时间表。

The manager's schedule is for bosses.

经理的日程安排是给老板们的。

It's embodied in the traditional appointment book, with each day cut into one hour intervals.

它体现在传统的预约簿中，每天间隔一小时。

You can block off several hours for a single task if you need to, but by default you change what you're doing every hour.

如果需要，您可以为单个任务安排几个小时，但默认情况下您每小时都会更改您正在做的事情。

When you use time that way, it's merely a practical problem to meet with someone.

当你以这种方式利用时间时，与某人见面就只是一个实际问题了。

Find an open slot in your schedule, book them, and

在您的日程安排中找到一个空档，进行预订，然后

you're done.

你完成了。

Most powerful people are on the manager's schedule.

最有权势的人都在经理的日程安排上。

It's the schedule of command.

这是指挥调度表。

But there's another way of using time that's common among people who make things, like programmers and writers.

但还有另一种利用时间的方式，在程序员和作家等创造者中很常见。

They generally prefer to use time in units of half a day at least.

他们通常更喜欢至少以半天为单位使用时间。

You can't write or program well in units of an hour.

你无法以小时为单位很好地写作或编程。

That's barely enough time to get started.

这还不够开始。

When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a

当您按照创客的日程安排进行操作时，会议就是一个

disaster.

灾难。

A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in.

一次会议可能会耗费整个下午的时间，因为它被分成两部分，每部分都太小，无法完成任何困难的事情。

Plus you have to remember to go to the meeting.

另外，你必须记住去参加会议。

That's no problem for someone on the manager's schedule.

对于经理日程上的人来说这不是问题。

There's always something coming on the next hour; the only question is what.

接下来的一个小时总会有事情发生；唯一的问题是什么。

But when someone on the maker's schedule has a meeting, they have to think about it.

但当制造商日程上有人开会时，他们就必须考虑一下。

For someone on the maker's schedule, having a meeting is like

对于制造商日程上的某人来说，开会就像

throwing an exception.

抛出异常。

It doesn't merely cause you to switch from one task to another; it changes the mode in which you work.

它不仅会导致您从一项任务切换到另一项任务，还会导致您从一项任务切换到另一项任务。它改变了你的工作模式。

I find one meeting can sometimes affect a whole day.

我发现一次会议有时会影响一整天。

A meeting commonly blows at least half a day, by breaking up a morning or afternoon.

一次会议通常至少要花半天时间，中间会分成一个上午或一个下午。

But in addition there's sometimes a cascading effect.

但除此之外，有时还会产生连锁效应。

If I know the afternoon is going to be broken up, I'm slightly less likely to start something ambitious in the morning.

如果我知道下午的时间会被打破，我早上就不太可能开始雄心勃勃的事情。

I know this

我知道这个

may sound oversensitive, but if you're a maker, think of your own case.

听起来可能过于敏感，但如果您是创客，请考虑一下您自己的情况。

Don't your spirits rise at the thought of having an entire day free to work, with no appointments at all?

想到一整天都可以自由工作、没有任何预约，您的精神是否会振奋起来？

Well, that means your spirits are correspondingly depressed when you don't.

嗯，这意味着当你不这样做时，你的精神也会相应地沮丧。

And ambitious projects are by definition close to the limits of your capacity.

从定义上来说，雄心勃勃的项目已经接近你的能力极限。

A small decrease in morale is enough to kill them off.

士气的小幅下降就足以杀死他们。

Each type of schedule works fine by itself.

每种类型的日程安排本身都能很好地发挥作用。

Problems arise when

当出现问题时

they meet.

他们见面了。

Since most powerful people operate on the manager's schedule, they're in a position to make everyone resonate at their frequency if they want to.

由于大多数有权势的人都按照经理的时间表行事，因此如果他们愿意的话，他们能够让每个人都按照他们的频率产生共鸣。

But the smarter ones restrain themselves, if they know that some of the people working for them need long chunks of time to work in.

但聪明的人会克制自己，如果他们知道为他们工作的一些人需要很长时间才能工作。

Our case is an unusual one.

我们的案例是一个不寻常的案例。

Nearly all investors, including all VCs I know, operate on the manager's schedule.

几乎所有投资者，包括我认识的所有风险投资人，都按照经理的时间表进行运作。

But

但是

Y Combinator runs on the maker's schedule.

Y Combinator 按照制造商的时间表运行。

Rtm and Trevor and I do because we always have, and Jessica does too, mostly, because she's gotten into sync with us.

Rtm、特雷弗和我这样做是因为我们一直这样做，杰西卡也这样做，主要是因为她已经与我们同步了。

I wouldn't be surprised if there start to be more companies like us.

如果出现更多像我们这样的公司，我不会感到惊讶。

I suspect founders may increasingly be able to resist, or at least postpone, turning into managers, just as a few decades ago they started to be able to resist switching from jeans

我怀疑创始人可能会越来越能够抵制或至少推迟成为管理者，就像几十年前他们开始能够抵制从牛仔裤的转变一样

to suits.

适合。

How do we manage to advise so many startups on the maker's schedule?

我们如何设法为如此多的初创公司提供有关创客日程安排的建议？

By using the classic device for simulating the manager's schedule within the maker's: office hours.

通过使用经典设备来模拟经理在制造商内的日程安排：办公时间。

Several times a week I set aside a chunk of time to meet founders we've funded.

我每周都会抽出很多时间去会见我们资助的创始人。

These chunks of time are at the end of my working day, and I wrote a signup program that ensures all the appointments within a given set of office hours

这些时间都是在我的工作日结束时，我编写了一个注册程序，以确保在给定的办公时间内完成所有约会

are clustered at the end.

都聚集在最后。

Because they come at the end of my day these meetings are never an interruption.

因为它们是在我一天结束时召开的，所以这些会议永远不会打扰我。

(Unless their working day ends at the same time as mine, the meeting presumably interrupts theirs, but since they made the appointment it must be worth it to them.) During busy periods, office hours sometimes get long enough that they compress the day, but they never interrupt it.

（除非他们的工作日与我的工作日同时结束，否则会议可能会打断他们的工作，但既然他们预约了，这对他们来说一定是值得的。）在繁忙时期，办公时间有时会足够长，以至于他们压缩了一天的时间，但他们从不打断它。

When we were working on our own startup

当我们自己创业时