Bill Gates

The best thinking has been done in solitude. Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius: and the uniformity of a work denotes the hand of a single artist. Edward Gibbon The Isolation of intellect A cool breeze whispers by a cottage perched on a hill overlooking the city of Washington. …

Boats and Billionaires I haven’t looked on eBay recently, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find a few almost-new yachts for sale; the superrich have upgraded to the superyacht. At 500' the superyacht is as large as a Naval destroyer, but limited by maritime law to a dozen passengers. (No limits, thankfully, on…

I recently read (and then re-read, as it happens) Bill Gates’ How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need. I really enjoyed it — it’s a concise, structured, reasoned, accessible take on what we need to do in order to prevent catastrophic anthropogenic…

The small investment theory. Let me be clear $1000 is by no means a small amount and 10 years ago in 2012, your $1000 would have had significantly more purchase power than it has today. However if you keep aside $100 every week, in 10 weeks time you’d have $1000…

If you’re a book person you may have bought lots of books. Even when I started to read books, I made my first purchase that around 5$. “Comment your recent book and it cost” My first book is Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki. He give his many…

“A computer on every desk and Microsoft software on every computer,” Bill Gates and his school friend, Paul Allen, started the Microsoft company in 1975 with this vision. But, what interested 20-year-old Bill Gates in starting a company? Let’s know the story or the success story of Bill Gates. Early Life of Bill Gates Bill…

Charge Gates, perhaps of the most extravagant individual on the planet, reported on Wednesday July 22 that he will give 20 billion bucks to his cause establishment to build its yearly financial plan because of profound worries about the decay of the everyday environments of many individuals impacted by the…

I’m currently reading book written by Bill Gates titled How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. I chose this book because I hope to start an environmental non profit one day. The main point of the book is three things: We need to get to zero carbon emissions It will not…