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Bill Gates and the Law of Minimum Intelligent Effort: the Method He Used in Microsoft to Eliminate Useless Work

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What if Bill Gates’ secret to productivity was not to work anymore, but to accurately identify what work was worthless? The question is uncomfortable because it contradicts everything they taught us about success: early mornings, endless meetings and tasks that accumulate as a sign of importance. Microsoft’s founder applied an opposite logic for decades: before optimizing how things are done, you have to ask yourself if those things deserve to b…
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What if Bill Gates’ secret to productivity was not to work anymore, but to accurately identify what work was worthless? The question is uncomfortable because it contradicts everything they taught us about success: early mornings, endless meetings and tasks that accumulate as a sign of importance. Microsoft’s founder applied an opposite logic for decades: before optimizing how things are done, you have to ask yourself if those things deserve to b…

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Merca2.es broke the news on Monday, May 4, 2026.
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