# Your Value Is in Deciding What's Important, Not Answering Email - Host: [lifehacker.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/lifehacker.com/) - Saved: September 21, 2010 (2010-09-21T23:44:50Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3794747fe063/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3794747fe063.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) Asked how he achieve work/life balance, Google's Director of Research Peter Norvig offered up a pretty easy answer. He knows that his job is in making good decisions on what's important, rather than what just arrived three minutes ago.More ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [Facebook Services for Mac Share Photos and Links from Your Desktop \[Automator\]](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/91209cdd9ac6/) (lifehacker.com, October 3, 2010) - [Set Up a Simple, Web Streaming Home Surveillance System \[Video\]](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b386c7af6b39/) (lifehacker.com, October 6, 2010) - [How Do You Relate to Your Desk? \[Video\]](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/efa543139980/) (lifehacker.com, October 11, 2010) - [Focus Is a Free Ebook on Minimalism and Killing Distractions \[Free\]](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/016473013041/) (lifehacker.com, October 22, 2010) - [Drink Water Before a Meal to Reduce Hunger (Seriously) \[Diet Hacks\]](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c241ced2e4fc/) (lifehacker.com, November 16, 2010) ## Saved the same week - [MacSpeech gets upgraded to Dragon Dictate 2](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7428d86a54fd/) (9to5mac.com, September 20, 2010) - [CAPTCHA advertising](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d837bb4ee2db/) (kottke.org, September 21, 2010) - [Rough seas](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6867b196017e/) (kottke.org, September 21, 2010) - [Making Games on Facebook Better](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/af7941000f97/) (developers.facebook.com, September 21, 2010) - [Tall Women Carrying Heavy Things](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/331e9a5ee1eb/) (thecolbertreport.cc.com, September 22, 2010) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://lifehacker.com/5643751/your-value-is-in-deciding-whats-important-not-answering-email