Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule Revisited — “If we don’t make stuff, there will be no stuff “—Elon Musk Paul Graham’s 2009 essay, Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule, struck a chord with creative workers of all types by highlighting the vast differences in work style between two broad categories of knowledge workers: makers and managers: The manager’s schedule is for bosses. It’s embodied in the traditional appointment book, with each…

A pragmatic approach to reinventing banking When I was a boy, perhaps 10 years old, my father took me to the big city for a business meeting. As we idled through downtown Houston in Dad’s pickup, I marveled at the soaring office towers and the “rich people” scurrying about in…