Interesting article “How I Work: Bill Gates” from 2006 about how Bill Gates (you know, that bloke with the software house) works. Good insights into his productivity methods.
It seems to boil down to:
- Three monitors (email, current work item, browser)
- Email filtering
- Ignore “the toast” – pop-up email notification
- Email, Desktop folders and Calendar instead of to-do lists
- SharePoint to collaborate on projects
- Search
- Whiteboard
I can certainly vouch for three monitors, email filtering and the whiteboard.
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I’m Gareth J M Saunders, 50 years old, 6′ 4″, father of 3 boys (including twins).
Enneagram type FOUR and introvert (INFP), I am a non-stipendiary priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church, I sing with the NYCGB alumni choir, play guitar, play mahjong, write, draw and laugh…
Scrum master at Safeguard Global; latterly at Sky and Vision/Cegedim. Former web architect and agile project manager at the University of St Andrews and previously warden at Agnes Blackadder Hall.
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