#448 Time management for makers
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It’s been more than ten years since Paul Graham wrote Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule, and in that time his then-revolutionary ideas have become almost mainstream. Every worthwhile engineering manager now knows—even if they don’t always act upon this knowledge—that engineers require long stretches of uninterrupted time in order to make things. And yet, the interruptions continue to come.
A question I get asked with some frequency is: why bother measuring X, why not build something instead? More bluntly, in a recent conversation with a newsletter author, his comment on some future measurement projects I wanted to do (in the same vein as other projects like keyboard vs. mouse, keyboard, terminal and end-to-end latency measurements) was, "so you just want to get to the top of Hacker News?" The implication for the former is that measuring is less valuable than building and for the latter that measuring isn't valuable at all (perhaps other than for fame), but I don't see measuring as lesser let alone worthless. If anything, because measurement is, like writing, not generally valued, it's much easier to find high ROI measurement projects than high ROI building projects.
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