Bill Gates recommended books right now? A Separate Peace by John Knowles: The story is based in a boys’ boarding school, the elite Devon School where the protagonists Gene and Finny studied in. World War II was raging and tearing apart lives at that time. They were roommates. Finny was a charismatic young lad who could easily get away with any mischief whereas, on the other hand, Gene was an introvert. With time, they became good friends but something happened that summer which not only broke their friendship but also killed their innocence forever. A story inspired by the real-life experiences of Knowles, A Separate Peace explores the dark side of adolescence and will leave a lasting impact on all the readers. Discover even more information on https://snapreads.com/magazine/bill-gates-recommended-books/.
Gates has three offspring and you must think they are very lucky for they will amass all their father’s fortune eventually. But did you know that each of them will only inherit $10 million each? This is just a fraction of their father’s $81.1 billion net worth. “Leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favour to them,” he explained in an interview. Even if multilingual people abound Gates’ family, he is monolingual and can only fluently speak in English. “I feel pretty stupid that I don’t know any foreign languages,” Gates admitted in an interview.
Pinker is a Pulitzer finalist and a professor of psychology at Harvard, so when he writes about the decline of violence, it matters. He cites Biblical references, Grimm’s fairy tales, and historical true stories about actual whipping boys meant to take lashes on behalf of royal princes. Full of statistics, and references to history and psychology, Pinker makes an argument against common sense: that our generations are more anti-violent on a moral basis than prior generations. Named a global thinker by Foreign Policy, and a top influencer by Time Magazine, his best books come highly recommended to those who need to wrestle with large concepts.
Put simply, Bill Gates has about two million times more money than the median US household income. It’s estimated that Gates is making about $11 million a day, and that’s not even the peak of his earnings. At one point, he had more than $150 billion. Bill Gates held the money title belt almost every year from 2000 to 2017. The only exception was the 2010-2013 period when Jeff Bezos gave him a run for his… well, money. As of 2022, Gates is the fourth richest person in the world after Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Bernard Arnault. If you wonder who that last guy is—he’s the chairman and CEO of the French conglomerate LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton).
The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal: I have to confess I’m not entirely sure about this one, as Gates says only “Heart” is one of his favorites and there are a lot of books out there with the word “Heart” in the title. But I think it’s a fair bet that he’s referring to this novel about the untimely death of a young man and his family’s decision to donate his heart because Gates wrote a rave review about it several years back. “It’s poetry disguised as a novel,” Gates said of the book at the time, noting, “At times I found myself reading more slowly than usual, simply because the way she describes things is so beautiful. Find even more information at https://snapreads.com/.