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It depends, but yes.

In my experience, if you're busy, the only way to remain on top of things is to be quite ruthless with your time management. You have no time that is "free", so anything that you want to get done needs to be on the schedule.

If you're less busy, this behavior can seem rude or self-aggrandizing or whatever, but it's (probably) not. If someone offers you a 15 minute slot in their day, then they're probably extremely busy, and such an offer should be treated respectfully.

[FWKevents]

I agree. I'm still "pre-money" in my start-up, so not making money at the moment, but I always have an agenda of things I want to accomplish to move the ball forward. Under these conditions, if anything else gets done outside of my agenda, it's got to be scheduled. It does seem off-putting to some people. For instance, I volunteer at some community groups, and people I meet there can sometimes make the assumption that I'm being stand-offish when I whip out a schedule on my smartphone just to have a short chat or to do a volunteer task, especially since it seems to them like I'm "not working". I just have a lot of competing priorities and have learned that I must be true to my own goals first, or risk losing sight of those goals.

[commentsgaloer2]

Yeah, this is spot on. It also helps "block" that time slot so that other people can invite you to meetings or other activities taking this into account.