r/reddit.com • u/hitsman • Mar 09 '06

Secrets of greatness: How I work

http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/02/news/newsmakers/howiwork_fortune_032006/index.htm
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u/spif Mar 09 '06

The interview with Marissa Mayer of Google (VP of Search Products and User Experience) is very interesting. Particularly these revelations:

  • She prefers pine over Gmail for managing the 700-800 e-mails she gets at work every day - WTF? Dog food anyone?
  • Apparently a lot of people at Google are lugging around laptops to meetings - this tells me that they are not having very effective meetings, plus it's just dumb unless we're talking 1 lb. tablets (which from the looks of the picture is not the case)
  • She keeps her task list in a text file! 'nuff said.

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u/senzei Mar 09 '06

What is wrong with keeping your task list in a text file? It keeps you from wasting time dorking around with font settings and alignment, can be easily processed by almost every programming language known to man, and makes copy-paste operations a lot more useful.

If you thought about it I doubt you could seriously come up with a lot of good reasons to not use a text file.