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Bill Gates on Desert Islands Discs (audio)
- macmac 11y agoOpening with "Pressure" and you already know that he has good taste
- goldenkey 11y agoHis own sense and easy admittance of his initially poor social skills is quite telling that he has grown. A large issue in our career field is strong egos, and poor self awareness of social issues. It is really telling when you see an engineer who realizes that being social is not so much a choice if one wishes to accomplish great things, partnerships are necessary. I personally see failure of being a flourishing person, when I observe an anti-social engineer. These type of one-dimensional individuals are great to have as wheels in ones' machine but will never really ascend to greatness lest they embrace total self improvement.
- interfixus 11y agoNot everyone harbors a wish to "really ascend to greatness" or nourishes a deep desire to "embrace total self improvement". We're fine as we are, some of us.
- goldenkey 11y agoYeah but most of those that are fine the way they are dont realize or acknowledge how defective they really are, ie. aspergers or autism
- mrob 11y agoHis choices were: Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure Willie Nelson - Blue Skies Ed Sheeran - Sing Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? U2 - One The Beatles - Two of Us Rogers & Hammerstein - How Can Love Survive (from the Broadway version of The Sound of Music) Lin-Manuel Miranda - My Shot (from Hamilton) And if he could only pick one of them, it would be Blue Skies.