Status Updates From Source Code: My Beginnings

Slowly back on the reading grind mid finals tornado

I’m digging it so far!

when's the microsoft chapter?? when are we getting to the point??

that feeling when you want to root for the main character in the story (bill gates), but you literally have no clue what he's saying????

Kent’s mom was curled up on the sofa, sobbing. It was at that moment I understood that for all my grief, it would never run as deep as hers. He was my best friend, but he was her baby.

ugh god bill gates had the biggest superiority complex as a young child

he bought 2 sets of books. one for school and one for home (yes king i wouldnt want to carry them either). BUT, it was because he wanted his classmates to think he got all of the concepts without studying, but spent HOURS studying? only bill gates. literally only he would do that.

this book is too smart for me

reading about a billionaire's life makes me feel so weird? like yes accomplished man but you're a billionaire??

Seeing how exceptional of a programmer Bill got to be at such an early age is truly eye-opening/humbling. Before even finishing high-school, he had already accumulated countless hours of programming experience, taught programming classes and delivered a complete a business-ready software.

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Currently over five hours in and he's still talking about his childhood. Also, really regret that it's read by Wil Wheaton. Gates is a surprisingly good storyteller though.

I didn’t know he was so infatuated with computers at his early age (circa 13 yo) and was a vivid hiker short after. He could think about the program he wrote (a “function evaluator” as he called) and optimize it so very that he calls it the best one he’s ever written during one of his toughest hiking in his teenage years. This deep fascination and devotion amazes me.

Yep. Some nice rationalization there. Only knows certain things about Seattle from reading his mother's notebooks. Looks like we're trying to create a narrative for something we know is wrong. Only knows them from reading them in his mother's private journals. That's not looking good there Bill.
Perfect math SAT score + top AB calculus score is good news. I would agree w/ low global intuition + comprehension

Seeing how extremely privileged Bill was, especially with how important and succcessful a woman his mom was, is truly illuminating. I'm glad he was willing to share his life with this much transparency.

I didn’t expect this to make me cry

Getting a little technical 😴🤖

I hate Wil Wheaton so much lol

Yep. He gets it on chemistry. Most boring sh*t I've seen in a day. The lab feels like a sterilized 45 year old. Constant memorization. I don't even think what he says worked for him, making simple models that make sense for the mind, would have worked for me. That probably would have made it even more boring. Those labs in university were where the fire of the will goes to die. I just couldn't. He nailed it with that

Yep. He gets it on chemistry. Most boring sh*t I've seen in a day. The lab feels like a sterilized 45 year old. Constant memorization. I don't even think what he says worked for him, making simple models that make sense for the mind, would have worked for me. That probably would have made it even more boring. Those labs in university were where the fire of the will go to die. I just couldn't. He nailed it with that

Alright. We went from anarchist are horrible, dangerous, terrorists that throw pies in my face to I remember this cafe near C cubed where I bought lots of pizza slices. That's getting somewhere. Most of them are nice people that the government is really flunking. But this being a billionaire is kind of part of the flunking side of things. We're getting somewhere but the intuitions are definitely not coming naturally.

Handwriting matters. Why does it matter how it looks if it's meant to purvey information? Form follows function. Good handwriting that is attractive tends to be more functionally legible writing. The one struggle they're devaluing it. It's weird because later he will say things that follow the intuition, such as in math 4*4=16, the nature of the quantities necessitate the final form of the completed equation. Bizarre

Wtf, some free speech solidarity there in Chapter 4. Like dude just come out and say "I'm stalking you and not donating to you" so we all know the reality of who we're dealing with.

Oh yeah, he's just like you. The teachers called on them for help just like you and he staid in for recess to help with that just like you. He was a librarian just like you. Meanwhile: the wage gap. Obvious and grotesque. Stop trying to relate to people when you do nothing about obvious injustice.

Yep. Had a family member who thought women shouldn't get educated or even drive. Very short amount of reading spent on how he was wrong about all that.

Yep, Hypercompetitive type. Needs to "beat Grammy". Very "testosterone colors most of my existence" vibe. Clearly says that "everything became mental wrestling". Not my vibe. I do not enjoy constantly fighting people. The part with hiking I like because it's more about team work and democracy in the face of real challenges. But getting that upset about someone faster than you in a card game is...not my energy

I’ve only listened for an hour but GEEEEZ do yourself a favor - if u can avoid it (!) don’t buy the audiobook cuz GAG it’s edited awkwardly so it feels like the end of some sentences are cut off

made it to chapter 7, he is talking about selling nuts lol

just realised Bill Gates only reads the prologue and epilogue, already disappointed. Will Wheaton is ok, i guess

in a mood for a chill memoir, hopefully this will be a 3 star read.

Figured, I am never picking up a Walter Isaacson, might as well give this a shot. ngl the fact that it is a new release is the only reason i picked this up, i have been chasing the 'crying in h mart' kinda high.

Engaging and interesting so far...