Quality Bill Gates recommended books? The Great Gatsby F. Scot Fitzgerald: The book portrays the Jazz Age very accurately talks about the disillusionment of money, status and lavish living. The story revolves around a rich man Jay Gatsby who threw glamourous parties at his Long Island’s mansion. Although there were hundreds of guests, loud jazz music, champagne and confetti all around, Jay Gatsby was distant and uninterested because he had only one guest to impress – a married, elegant and charismatic woman from Kentucky, Daisy Buchanan. A tragic pursuit by Gatsby for attaining the unattainable even when he was living an ‘American Dream’ life shows that happiness is more than what money and status are all about. Here is what Bill Gates said about this book: “The novel that I re-read the most. Melinda and I love one line so much that we had it painted on a wall in our house: ‘His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.'” “Power comes not from knowledge kept but from knowledge shared.” Find even more details on book Bill Gates recommends.
“The Ministry for the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson This climate fiction novel imagines — in excruciating detail — various scenes of disasters caused by the climate crisis. It also explores some theoretical solutions. “Robinson has written a novel that presents the urgency of this crisis in an original way and leaves readers with hope that we can do something about it,” Gates writes. “The Power” by Naomi Alderman In this sci-fi world, women have the ability to discharge electric shocks with their bodies, and the writer uses this plot line to explore gender-related power dynamics. Gates writes, “Reading about female characters who have been suffering with no recourse and suddenly have the power to defend themselves, I gained a stronger and more visceral sense of the abuse and injustice many women experience today.”
Two years into his college education, Gates dropped out of Harvard University to take a shot at life and start Microsoft. The business eventually made him a millionaire by 26. In 2010, the Harvard Crimson called Gates “Harvard’s most successful dropout”. In 2007, Gates came back to Harvard to accept an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. This award is given by the university without the need for the completion of the usual requirements of a certain degree. In 2009, Gates and Buffett established The Giving Pledge, where they and different very rich people made an agreement to give essentially 50% of their abundance to a good cause.
Put simply, Bill Gates has about two million times more money than the median US household income. It’s estimated that Gates is making about $11 million a day, and that’s not even the peak of his earnings. At one point, he had more than $150 billion. Bill Gates held the money title belt almost every year from 2000 to 2017. The only exception was the 2010-2013 period when Jeff Bezos gave him a run for his… well, money. As of 2022, Gates is the fourth richest person in the world after Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Bernard Arnault. If you wonder who that last guy is—he’s the chairman and CEO of the French conglomerate LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton).
Grand Transitions by Vaclav Smil : When Gates reviewed this book back in 2019, he called it “masterpiece” from “one of my favorite thinkers.” While he cautioned the book is “not for everyone” and that “long sections read like a textbook or engineering manual,” he also insisted that Smil’s examination of the growth of just about everything, from dinosaurs to the number of transistors on a computer chip, is nothing short of brilliant. “Nobody sees the big picture with as wide an aperture as Vaclav Smil,” Gates concluded. See even more info on https://snapreads.com/.