[pc86]

I wish it weren't the case, but IME blacking out 40% of your schedule for meetings seems unrealistic for the vast majority of companies. We have 1 day a month and while I've only been here less than a year it is generally very well respected in the [Engineering] team that you do not schedule anything on that day, everything is through Slack (and by and large we're really good at treating Slack as asynchronous, nobody gets bent out of shape if you don't answer a message for several hours or more).