Tag: Bill Gates

  • 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 personality1Personalities are analyzed according to the Big Five personality traits. by analyzing the words in my Facebook posts:2Five Labs examined the linguistic content using a method “based on a study published by H. Andrew Schwartz and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania’s World Well-Being Project.

    Brent is restless, inventive, and reserved.3I’m tempted to disagree, but maybe that would just prove its validity. I do question its validity for everyone, though. One person I analyzed showed very different traits than in real life. Maybe all that proves is that we can be very different people on social media than in person.

    If that’s all it did, Five Lab’s analysis would be interesting.4Some may question why I’d post personal results on a public blog. I have a couple of responses: (1) if the results are accurate, those who know me aren’t surprised; those who don’t, don’t know whether they are or not. (2) I have a ton of public postings here on my blog. Not posting the results doesn’t prevent anyone from doing a similar analysis with an even larger data source. 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 and I could be twins.5I wonder if he’d agree. ;-) All the same, notice the similarity in poses for our profile pictures. Also, Bill’s personality traits matched closer than any of my friends’ traits did. ;-)

    Five Labs also lets me analyze my friends’ personalities, even those who apparently haven’t yet specifically authorized Five Labs to see their walls as I did. I bet they didn’t know they were authorizing that when they friended me. I didn’t either.6It’s amazing how much information we leak on the Internet, even on Facebook. Or maybe, this is just what it means when we authorize apps our friends use to see our data. Makes sense?

    Maybe you’d like to let Five Labs analyze your personality. Or maybe you already have. Did you agree with the results?

    Update. It appears that the last assertion is no longer true. As more of my friends have done this analysis, it turns out that one of my friends is an 88% match. Sorry, Bill… ;-)

    • 1
      Personalities are analyzed according to the Big Five personality traits.
    • 2
      Five Labs examined the linguistic content using a method “based on a study published by H. Andrew Schwartz and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania’s World Well-Being Project.
    • 3
      I’m tempted to disagree, but maybe that would just prove its validity. I do question its validity for everyone, though. One person I analyzed showed very different traits than in real life. Maybe all that proves is that we can be very different people on social media than in person.
    • 4
      Some may question why I’d post personal results on a public blog. I have a couple of responses: (1) if the results are accurate, those who know me aren’t surprised; those who don’t, don’t know whether they are or not. (2) I have a ton of public postings here on my blog. Not posting the results doesn’t prevent anyone from doing a similar analysis with an even larger data source.
    • 5
      I wonder if he’d agree. ;-) All the same, notice the similarity in poses for our profile pictures. Also, Bill’s personality traits matched closer than any of my friends’ traits did.
    • 6
      It’s amazing how much information we leak on the Internet, even on Facebook. Or maybe, this is just what it means when we authorize apps our friends use to see our data. Makes sense?
  • 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 much as others. That’s where you can make the greatest difference, where every dollar you spend is liable to have the greatest impact.

    Bill Gates

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