Bill Gates picks 'Five memorable books I read in 2018'

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, announced his own blog " Five books I loved in 2018 ". Five books chosen in 2018 unintentionally said "It became a book of contents best suited for gifts", not only as a book of year-end and new year's reading but also as a gift to acquaintances It is.

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◆ 1: Educated: A Memoir

"Educated: A Memoir" is a book that tells Tara Westover's own experience that he has never been to school or hospital till the age of 17. Mr. Gates seems to have never thought about "if you grow up in a Mormon family," but Mr. Westover, who grew up in that moment, grew up as an excellent writer, while reading her work He was forced to defeat his own lives, he writes.

◆ 2: Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

"Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War" by Paul Scharre is a book that thinks about war and artificial intelligence (AI). Despite being a very complex topic of war and AI, the author, Mr. Scharre, said he would argue against the machine-led war with a clear explanation. In addition, Mr. Scharre of the author is a person who helped formulate the policy of the US government on autonomous weapons.

◆ 3: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou's "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup" seems to be a book recommended by a friend of Gates. Author Carreyrou seems to have experienced the rich flourishes of Biotech's startup " Theranos " as an internal affiliate, and it was "Bad Blood" that made it a book. Gates wrote that "I was crazy than I had imagined," books mention elaborate fraud, conspiracy, collapse of family relationships, etc. that Theranos set in, once used $ 10 billion ( About 1.1 trillion yen) It is possible to know the process of the collapse of companies that had value nearby.

◆ 4: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

For Mr. Yuval Noah Harari's "21 Lessons for the 21st Century", Gates wrote, "It is a fan of all books written by Mr. Harari." His past book " Sapiens Total History (Top) Civilization Structure and Human Happiness " and " Homo Deus Top: The Future of Technology and Sapiens " are books covering the past and the future of humanity, but "21 Lessons for the 21st Century "is a book that I wrote about the human race now. "If you are overwhelmed by the state of the world in 2018," 21 Lessons for the 21st Century "handles countless news and provides a framework to help us think about the challenges human beings face "It is written by Mr. Gates.

◆ 5: The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day

Andy Puddicombe's "The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day" began with a story about a trip that he went to become a Buddhist monk when he was a college student, I will explain the method in an interesting way. "If I am 25 years old I'm sure I would have mocked Puddicombe," Gates wrote, but Gates, who recently came to tackle meditation " It is a pattern that it was a book that will become.