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How Bill Gates Works

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the day-in-the-life-of dept.

ZZeta writes "What's a day like for the richest man on Earth? In this Fortune interview, Bill Gates explains what he does on his average workday. Most interesting? He is not into some of Outlook's features, such as to-do lists and email notification. Also, he works with three monitors and is looking forward to buying a digital whiteboard next year." I was interested in how he gets his e-mail filtered. Hey Bill, if you read this, I'll totally put you on my e-mail whitelist!

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  1. huh? by clevershark · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Also, he works with three monitors and is looking forward to buying a digital whiteboard next year." I can't fathom why the world's richest man would wait for any period of time before buying something, especially if it's something useful!

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  2. How he gets his email filtered by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... I read an article in which he was quoted saying that he had a small staff that personally goes through his email.

    Alas, I am too lazy to link to such article.

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  3. How boring, Bill! Let's hear the interesting stuff by gd23ka · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Instead of hearing about all the wonderful "Microsoft Technologies" he uses like a desktop that spans three
    screens I guess the really interesting thing to hear from him is how he gets himself focused and disciplined, what's
    his mental trick here. I know how to work an email client like the next guy but I'm still a miserable, disorganized,
    unfocussed son of a bitch. That "part" of your workday is what is really interesting, Bill.

  4. Re:Failures by Gonarat · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Aside from his three screens, his office looks REALLY unimpressive.


    From what I have heard/read about Bill Gates in the past, his office is about what I would expect. Gates doesn't seem to be the type of person who would have an "Emperor Palpatine" type office, at least for everyday use. He may have a show office for meeting "important people", but somehow I doubt he even has that. It doesn't suprise me that he uses a 3 screen set up -- I use two screens at work, and wouldn't want to go back to one.


    Personal feeling about how big Microsoft is and how much of a monopoly it has aside, it seems that Bill Gates is the type of person who still has fun and likes to do and build new things, all while dominating in whatever it is he does. That said, I think Microsoft is a little (okay, a lot) too big and powerful, so that is why I use Open Source software as much as possible.

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