Making time for writing - manager vs. maker time

When it comes to a sustainable writing habit, which is essential as someone in a teaching and research position, I was really happy to run across the concept of manager time vs. maker time from Paul Graham. This helps to explain why I like to start writing before email and do the bulk of my writing tasks before I actually come into the office, because once you start dealing with other tasks, that precious attention flow will start to become scattered and fragmented.


Now of course, blocking off chunks of time for writing is no guarantee of productivity, at least in my experience, but being in the habit of daily writing happening first, before other things, does seem to work for me.

You can check out the original article here: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html