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  • Bill and Melinda Gates on investing

    Bill and Melinda Gates on investing

    The best investment any of us can ever make is in the lives of others. Bill and Melinda Gates This quote is from Bill and Melinda Gates’ 2017 annual letter to Warren Buffet on the “impact his gift has had on the world.” It’s well worth a read.

  • 6 Books I’d Recommend

    6 Books I’d Recommend. Your summer reading list, courtesy of Bill Gates.

  • My Five Labs Personality Analysis Using Facebook

    My Five Labs Personality Analysis Using Facebook

    Five Labs characterized my personality by analyzing the words in my Facebook posts: Brent is restless, inventive, and reserved. If that’s all it did, Five Lab’s analysis would be interesting. However, what makes it cool is Five Labs showing me which of my friends’ and selected public figures’ personalities are closest to mine. Turns out,…

  • Bill Gates on Making a Difference

    Melinda and I have focused on poverty and disease globally, and on education in the US. We picked those issues by starting with an idea we learned from our parents: Everyone’s life has equal value. If you begin with that premise, you quickly see where the world acts as though some lives aren’t worth as…