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Manager time: a schedule structured around one-hour blocks

Manager time: a schedule structured around one-hour blocks where the day is divided into meetings, calls, and short tasks, fundamentally incompatible with maker time because it fragments attention by design

Why This Is a Definition

Genus: one-hour block schedule. Differentia: designed for meetings/short tasks, fragments attention.

Source Lessons

L-0825

Manager time versus maker time

Managers and makers operate on fundamentally incompatible time schedules — and most knowledge workers live in both modes without recognizing the structural conflict.

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