Sam Altman's blog

Why we picked it A founder who ran Y Combinator and now OpenAI says it plainly: the first few hours of his morning are his most productive and he lets no one schedule anything then. That is exactly our stance, defend your peak window like revenue, coming from someone with an unusually heavy meeting load who still guards it. He also kills the default one-hour meeting (15 to 20 minutes or two hours, never one), which is the calendar hygiene that frees the morning.

Productivity

From Sam Altman's blog by Sam Altman 15 min read

• "The first few hours of the morning are definitely my most productive time of the day, so I don't let anyone schedule anything then": protect the block, don't just hope for it
• Picking the right thing to work on beats moving fast in a worthless direction, so spend your defended peak hours on the two or three tasks that actually move the company
• The default one-hour meeting is usually wrong; most meetings need 15 to 20 minutes or two hours, so let the calendar own shallow work but keep it tight