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A short excerpt from a YouTube interview/monologue (The Startup CEO Show) recounting an anecdote about Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to argue that leaders must reserve unstructured time to think rather than filling their schedules with meetings. The speaker emphasizes that a CEO's role includes being the company's primary thinker — ‘‘the cheap thinker’’ — and uses Warren Buffett’s sparse diary as an exemplar of protecting time to reflect.

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