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Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, on time management and prioritizing:<\/p>\n

People get out of balance when they see their value as being able to respond quickly. If I see myself as a machine for answering email, then my work life would never stop because my email never stops. If instead I see my value as separating the important from the unimportant and making good decisions on the important, then I can go home at a reasonable hour, spend time with my family, ignore my email and phone messages all weekend long, and make sure that when I return to work, I am in the right mood to make the good decisions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(An excerpt featured on InformationWeek’s Global CIO publication<\/a>, taken from Norvig’s interview in the book “Making it Big in Software<\/a>.”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, on time management and prioritizing: People get out of balance when they see their value as being able to respond quickly. If I see myself as a machine for answering email, then my…<\/p>\n

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