Bill Gates


Business adventures
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Educated
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
How to Lie with Statistics
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
A Gentleman in Moscow
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012
Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
What was the Plan X supposed to be? Do you remember the promise of Bill Gates? "Our human DNA will be never the same. ...more
Eve Janson, Ann - This is mine! Re-Programming 2: Anu

Across most of the diseases the Gates Foundation works on, its track record of innovation is quite weak. Gates planted its flag as the leading voice on malaria, working with a number of different companies to develop a vaccine, eventually putting all its weight behind a GSK product. The GSK vaccine’s efficacy was so weak that even the foundation distanced itself from the product. We see a similar story with TB, where the foundation put half a billion dollars into a nonprofit vaccine developer na ...more
Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire

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GatesNotes A (non-official) group page that posts about Bill Gates' recommendations for books. …more
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