[pavel_lishin]

> What incentivises your manager to just agree to let you work on your own projects?

What incentivizes you to ask permission?

[simianwords]

I'm simply not allowed to work on things that are not agreed upon with my manager.

[pavel_lishin]

Are you allowed to pee? To make yourself a sandwich? To comment on Hacker News during work hours? To look out the window at two birds fighting over a stick?