BOOKS Bill Gates Says You SHOULD READ!

So Bill, I've started a new series asking successful entrepreneurs what their favorite books are, what they recommend. I know every summer you go away and do a little bit extra reading, so I'm curious, what are you reading and what are your recommendations for entrepreneurs?

Every summer I try to do a little extra reading. Here's a few books I've read recently that you might enjoy. On Immunity by Eula Biss, she explains the history of vaccination, why children who don't get vaccinated can even affect those who are vaccinated. She's a very good writer. I wish I could write as nicely as she writes. Should We Eat Meat? by Václav Smil. It's provocative the way he does the title, as though passing the responsibility to the reader, where we know it's pretty hard for people to give up meat. There are books that touch on this topic that don't have numbers in them, but you know, this is schmear, you are gonna get the numbers. You might even get a few sentences in between the numbers. How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff. Being able to understand what you're looking at and being willing to say, hey, where did that come from, is that accurate? It's a quick read, it's got a lot of good examples in it, it's a trip to the past, even though the basic points it makes are still as valid today. What If? By Randall Munroe. It's a very clever way of getting you to think about various scientific things going on. This idea of when you say glass half empty, do you mean empty as in perfect vacuum? And, you know, all of a sudden if there was a glass sitting there where you put the water on the top and the vacuum on the bottom, or the vacuum on the top and the water on the bottom. This is clever. Those are the kind of questions that somebody with a good mind who's trying to figure out if they really understand That's the kind of question you should ask yourself. Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh. She's pretty creative and humorous about making fun of herself and revealing her inner thoughts. There was one thing about the dog where— this is one that I told Melinda to read— where the dog's getting confused where they're moving. And so she's trying to simulate what the dog's thinking. And her dog— maybe it's true— It's one of the most inept, impossible dogs to ever take care of. And finally, The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins. In science, we're all kids. I mean, a good scientist is somebody who's redeveloped the chain of reasoning of why we know what we know from scratch many times just to see where there's holes or alternate possibilities. It can never hurt to reread these things and think through what you're learning. We can observe way more stuff than you'd imagine, and we've made more sense out of the stuff stuff we can observe than you can imagine. So quite a range there in terms of fun to learn, fun to know about. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

Thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed. I want to know if you have read any of those books, what you think of them, if you're planning on reading any of them. And I'm going to add them to my Goodreads list as well if you want to follow me there and check out the other books that we've profiled so far. Thank you guys so much for watching. Let me know what you think in the comments. Continue to believe, and I'll see you soon.