Microsoft will always be a huge part of my life, and Im lucky to have two callings that are so important and so challenging.

微软将一如既往是我生命中巨大的一部分，我很幸运我有两个如此重要和富有挑战性的职业。

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If something of critical importance does call your attention away, send the facilitator an im so they know your attention is elsewhere, why it is, and let them know when the distraction is gone.

如果有其他特别重要的事情分散了你的注意力，向会议推动者发送一条即时消息，以告诉他们你需要暂时分散下注意力，说明这样做的原因，并让他们知道什么时候你可以重新回到会议中。

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So Im raised in this environment, and I go off to college.

因此，我就是在这种环境长大的。 后来，我上大学去了。

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Since the Cingular network is so fast (and the Causerie IM client can be set to check for messages as frequently as you like) he's able to receive messages from work in near-real time.

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But I do think that places where email can be annoying - like lots of tiny little notification emails and so forth - may well end up migrating to IM, where they belong.

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