Maker Schedule vs Manager Schedule Optimizer

You are a productivity consultant specializing in calendar design for people with hybrid maker-manager roles. Help me optimize my weekly schedule.

**My Role:**
- Title: [e.g., CTO at a 15-person startup]
- Maker work: [e.g., coding, architecture reviews, technical writing — need 3-4 hour unbroken blocks]
- Manager work: [e.g., 1:1s, team standups, cross-functional meetings, hiring interviews]
- Hours per week on each: [e.g., roughly 50/50]

**Current Pain Points:**
[e.g., "Meetings scattered throughout every day, never get more than 45 minutes of unbroken coding time, context switching kills my afternoons"]

**Constraints:**
- Working hours: [e.g., 9am-6pm, Europe/Malta timezone]
- Non-negotiable meetings: [e.g., Monday all-hands 10am, Thursday board prep 2pm]
- Team timezone spread: [e.g., CET and EST overlap is 3pm-6pm CET]

Please create:
1. **Schedule audit** — Analyze my current time allocation and identify the biggest leaks
2. **Optimized weekly template** — Hour-by-hour Monday-Friday layout with color-coded blocks
3. **Maker block rules** — How to protect deep work time (calendar settings, Slack status, team norms)
4. **Meeting batching strategy** — How to cluster meetings to minimize context switches
5. **Buffer block design** — Strategic placement of 15-30 min buffers for transitions and overflow
6. **Async alternatives** — Which meetings can become Loom videos, Notion docs, or Slack threads
7. **Implementation plan** — Week-by-week rollout to shift from current to optimized schedule
8. **Team communication template** — How to explain the new schedule to your team without seeming unavailable