Pete Gombert

 I wrote this post a week ago about how we are blocking out a portion of time at Balihoo for uninterrupted work.  Since then have been discussing the concept with quite a few people.  Then last night our Chief Architect sent me a blog post from Paul Graham of Y Combinator about the Managers Schedule vs the Makers Schedule .  Paul's post sums up in a much more eloquent manner a possible reason why these chunks of time are so important.  

If you don't know anything about Y Combinator, I would encourage you to check it out, they have been an important catalyst in the development of some amazing companies and are creating an entirely new path for see stage companies.  They have also spawned programs like TechStars which now has operations in Boulder, Boston and Seattle.

It's nice to know that we here are Balihoo are not the only ones that are trying to carve out a little more time for the makers in a world that has been taken over by managers.