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Bill’s 2024 Year in Books
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Books to keep you warm this holiday season
Each book on my list is about making sense of the world around you.
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
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1985
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3 editions
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
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2021
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2 editions
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Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
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2017
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3 editions
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Source Code: My Beginnings
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2025
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39 editions
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Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
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2018
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29 editions
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Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy
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1999
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The Road Ahead
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1995
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63 editions
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How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
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2022
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37 editions
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Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
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2019
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5 editions
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Speed & Scale: A Global Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
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2021
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7 editions
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| In 1997, Nick Kristof wrote an article that changed the course of my life. It was about the huge number of children in poor countries who were dying from diarrhea—and it helped me decide what I wanted to focus my philanthropic giving on. I’ve been fo ...more | |
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| I’m lucky that my parents were super supportive of my interest in computers—but Bono’s parents had a very different view of his passion for singing. He says his parents basically ignored him, which made him try even harder to get their attention. “Th ...more | |
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| I loved reading this memoir about how Trevor honed his outsider approach to comedy over a lifetime of never quite fitting in. He was a biracial child in apartheid South Africa, a country where mixed-race relationships were forbidden. He was, as the t ...more | |
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| In 1997, Nick Kristof wrote an article that changed the course of my life. It was about the huge number of children in poor countries who were dying from diarrhea—and it helped me decide what I wanted to focus my philanthropic giving on. I’ve been fo ...more | |
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| My dear friend Kay Graham had a remarkable life: taking over the Washington Post at a time when few women were in leadership positions like that, standing up to President Nixon to protect the paper’s reporting on Watergate and the Pentagon Papers, ne ...more | |
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| Vaclav Smil’s How to Feed the World is a must-read for anyone interested in the complexities of global food security. He takes a deep dive into the global food system to challenge common assumptions about hunger, food production, and waste. What make ...more | |
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added a status update: My memoir, Source Code, is officially out today. Looking back through decades of memories to write it was surprisingly eye-opening, meaningful, and also a lot of fun. I hope you enjoy reading it: https://gatesnot.es/40ZDHjA
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