Books Bill Gates recommends today? The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry: When the World War I was at its peak taking numerous lives, a deadly influenza virus contamination broke out in an army camp in Haskell County and rapidly spread all across the American troops taking millions of lives worldwide. It took away more lives than AIDS and Black Death took away in years. This deathly outbreak of influenza was the first collision of science and an epidemic. The book talks about how abstract the research in the field of medicine was in America and once the World War I started, a large number of doctors and nurses were dedicated to serving the soldiers and this caused a shortage of medical facilities for the common mass. How the virus spread, how the masses reacted to it and what steps the authorities took to curb the spread gives us an insight about how to deal with such epidemics in the future. A must-read book for everyone as we are fighting against the Covid-19 disease. Read more info at Bill Gates book recommend.
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.
Bill and his now ex-wife Melinda Gates have three kids—Jennifer, Rory, and Phoebe. A fun fact is that they weren’t allowed to have a phone until the age of 14. They also won’t inherit their dad’s entire fortune. We don’t feel too bad about them, though. The year was 1975. Bill Gates and his partner and childhood friend Paul Allen founded software company Microsoft—and the rest is history. When he stepped down from the company in 2020, however, he owned just about 1% of its shares. So, who is the owner of Microsoft now? According to Yahoo! Finance, the largest shareholder as of 2022, is Vanguard Group, Inc., with 8.2%. No single individual has a majority interest in the company.
“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.”
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr : This Pulitzer-prize winning novel follows the story of a German soldier and a blind French girl whose lives collide during World War II. Critics used words like mesmerizing, exquisite, stunning, soulful, and hauntingly beautiful to describe it. Gates apparently also fell under the novel’s spell, as it was the last book on his list of all-time favorites. He adds that the book forced him to face the depth of the grief of parents who have lost a child he encounters in the course of his philanthropic work. Discover even more details on snapreads.com.
