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    Marissa Mayer's daily schedule explained

    Marissa "I'm a human, honest" Mayer finally relented and gave an interview to BusinessWeek. Not counting the other ones.) This month's puff piece lists the Google VP's daily schedule. Let's take a look.

    8:00 a.m. Wake-up, get ready for work

    Okay, that should get her out the door at about 9 and into work around 9:30, right?

    9:00 a.m. Arrive at work,

    — what? —

    take conference call about a new technology

    "A new technology"? The whole "inside look" schtick breaks down when BusinessWeek protects Google's trade secrets.

    10:00 a.m. Meeting with Udi Manber, VP of engineering to discuss search, engineering staffing, etc.

    For "etc." read "what year it'll be Udi's turn to hog all the press."

    10:30 a.m. Meet with Associate Product Managers to brief and prepare for upcoming international business trip

    "For the trip, I need all red-eye flights, so I can recharge my batteries on the plane. I, um, meant 'recharge' as a metaphor for sleep. Yes. I'm a human."

    Lunch is for suckers. Seventeen hours to go, after the jump.

    12:00 noon Product review with Larry and Sergey; review product direction and strategy and potential future collaborations

    "First we collaborate with the Chinese. Then let's collaborate with North Korea. We'll leave collaborating with the Nazis to Yahoo."

    1:00 p.m. UI (User Interface) review to review/approve user interface designs/changes for multiple products

    Google UI background: General UI professional consensus is, Google sucks at UI. (Personally, the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button makes up for everything.)

    3:00 p.m. Meet with a new member of my team to welcome him and discuss career goals/trajectory

    "No, your goal can't be to have my job in two years. Because I want my job in two years."

    3:30 p.m. Meeting with Google Video product manager

    For coffee, actually — that manager's just chilling until YouTube tanks and the market belongs to Google again.

    4:00 p.m. Google Product Strategy meeting with Eric, Larry, Sergey, and other executives to go over weekly site traffic and a few special topics

    This week, the team tries an innovative strategy — instead of giving Eric legos to play with during the meeting, they give him Tinker Toys. He builds an elephant with wheels.

    5:00 p.m. Executive strategy meeting on Google China

    "Can we do this?" "No." "How about this?" "No." "And this?" "They cut a man's feet off for trying that." "Gross." "Don't worry, if you search for it, it's censored."

    6:00 p.m. Office Hours

    The much-vaunted "open office" for engineers, where bringing brownies increases a project's chance of approval by 50%.

    8:30 p.m. Catch up on the day's e-mail

    To: Mom
    From: Marissa
    Re: The only time I see you is in BusinessWeek
    Message: Not true. You saw me in Fortune this spring.

    11:15 p.m. Visit to the Google Gym to run

    Best place to work off the extra high from the rare Peruvian needle drugs.

    12:00 p.m. Go home

    Actually, BusinessWeek, that's a.m., but it's so bizarre we can forgive you for messing it up.

    12:30 a.m. Watch TV, do e-mail

    Marissa has her TV specially compressed to 4 minutes per show. It's amazing what she can still process. Well, it would be amazing, if she were human.

    3:00 a.m. Go to bed

    Oh sure, like you don't maintain a high-energy work lifestyle on 5 hours of sleep a night.


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