10 Successful Techies Reveal The Things They Can't Live Without
# 2 Vivian Schiller, NBC
Vivian Schiller is the former president and CEO of National Public Radio and currently serves as the senior Vice-President and Chief Digital Officer for NBC News. Initially she was the first general manager of Discovery Times Channel. In the case of Schiller, she carries ‘almost nothing’ because ‘stuff is noise.’
As she says, "Life has become infinitely more complicated by the explosion of devices and platforms. We're all sucked in by these distractions; eh, tools; but when it's your job to try to make sense of what that technology means for the news business, you have to be all in. It's a 24/7 cacophony of chaos, which has to be sorted through and understood. So when I get asked about what items I couldn't live without, I now flip it around and simply answer: almost nothing.”
She adds in saying, "When I travel, which is now two or three times a week, the goal is to carry nothing with me — or as close to nothing as possible. No laptops, just an iPad; no printouts, no books, they’re all on my Kindle. It used to be that when I packed clothes for a work trip, I'd keep asking myself, "Well, what if I want to wear this? Or this?" and now it's a shift outfit in one, maybe two, colors. (The number of pairs of shoes however, will always be a struggle.) My purse has an iPhone, a comb, wallet, lipstick, and a pen— if I'm lucky. I don't wear much jewelry; I've even ditched the watch."
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