Fortune magazine has an interesting article describing how the world’s richest person spends his day at the office. On his desk Bill Gates has three 21 inch NEC monitors connected to a Dell desktop obviously running on Windows XP. In his company E-Mail is the preferred choice of communication more than phone calls, documents, blogs, bulletin boards, or even meetings.
Days are often filled with meetings. It’s a nice luxury to get some time to go write up my thoughts or follow up on meetings during the day. But sometimes that doesn’t happen. So then it’s great after the kids go to bed to be able to just sit at home and go through whatever e-mail I didn’t get to. If the entire week is very busy, it’s the weekend when I’ll send the long, thoughtful pieces of e-mail. When people come in Monday morning, they’ll see that I’ve been quite busy— they’ll have a lot of e-mail.

Read on the full article at CNN.