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Is this his library in the background? http://i.imgur.com/iqvPs7N.jpg http://i.imgur.com/iqvPs7N.jpg edit: Apparently so, and here's his reading recommendatio
by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
Is this his library in the background?
http://i.imgur.com/iqvPs7N.jpg http://i.imgur.com/iqvPs7N.jpg
edit: Apparently so, and here's his reading recommendations from 2013 (w/ same library in background):
http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Personal/Best-Books-2013 http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Personal/Best-Books-2013
and more:
http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Books http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Books <- lots of reviews here
- frik 13y agoa lot of science books (chemistry, weather, etc), but no MSPress book and no computer literature?
- throwaway_yy2Di 13y agoI assume it's only a tiny slice of his library. Inferring from the fact he's the world's richest geek, and that he's spent $30 million on a set of da Vinci papers, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Leicester https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Leicester
- sevia 13y agoFor ending poverty on a global scale, wouldn't weather and chemistry seem like a decent place to start? Consider immunobiology and agriculture. Also: I know it's a cheap shot, but I had a good laugh when I saw a book called "The Blue Death" on his shelf.
- pmelendez 13y agoAm I the only one who noticed the Weather for dummies? I wonder why he was interested on it.
- bagels 13y agoWeather control, obviously.
- jld 13y agoBrushing up on his cloud computing.
- waterlesscloud 13y agoHe lives in Seattle so he has plenty of weather to be interested in. :-)
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoThere are only two kinds of weather in Seattle: you get rain for 6 months and sun for 6 months. Its quite simple actually.
- stevewillows 13y agoDon't forget the week of snow in December and the two weeks in late February!
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoSeattle gets a week of snow about once every four years, or at least it did when I lived there 10 years ago.
- farnsworth 13y agoIt literally just snowed last night and caught everyone totally off guard (melted now).
- hayksaakian 13y agoWe've been getting at least a few days per year since then
- Tuna-Fish 13y agoHis primary interests now are fighting poverty and hunger. Having a basic understanding of weather sounds like something nice to have in that situation, and if he spent the time in high school and college thinking about computers and businesses, a "for dummies" book might not be the worst place to start.
- olalonde 13y agoInterestingly, the first "for dummies" book was actually "DOS For Dummies" published in 1991, followed by "Windows For Dummies". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Dummies#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Dummies#History
- debt 13y agoWow. Just the other day I was looking at the clouds and wondering how it all works up there and not some three-hundred word blogpost; seriously, why are there different clouds? The sky is such a big part of my everyday life, yet I know nothing about it. I searched around but couldn't find any good books on clouds. This seems like a good start though. Mad respect for Bill.
- Joeri 13y agohttp://cloudappreciationsociety.org http://cloudappreciationsociety.org
- sushirain 13y agoThese are the books I found there: * The Blue Death, http://www.amazon.com/The-Blue-Death-Disease-Disaster/dp/B001F0R9NA http://www.amazon.com/The-Blue-Death-Disease-Disaster/dp/B00... * Principles of Neural Science (a canonical textbook) * Immunobiology * Genome
- throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago* Linus Pauling's General Chemistry * Richard Dawkins' Ancestor's Tale * Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science * Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos
- rodgerd 13y ago_Ancestor's Tale_ is a wonderful book. I highly recommend it.