Get Rich Carefully

This book is written by Jim Cramer from the Mad Money TV show. That show is quite entertaining. This book, however, was boring. Jim does present a lot of information about what he thinks moves stocks. But to form an opinion on what to invest in, you got to take the whole book worth of information.

A lot of the information also seems dated. This book is over 12 years old. The companies he talks about might still exist. But a lot has happened over the last decade. There were some good insights on how stock trading can severely affect stock price.

I did get to the end of the book. I ended up skimming much of the boring stuff. I only focused on the broad themes. Not a book I think anybody should be ready, unless they need something to help put them to sleep.

Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World

This book covers Bill Gates in his later years. Seems like he had been cheating on his wife Melinda. She divorced him. They previously had created a massive organization to oversee the funds they marked for charity. Eventually, his wife quit and formed her own org when they divorced.

There was coverage of a suspicious relationship between Bill and Jeffrey Epstein. It seems the people at his companies charged with keeping his image clean had slept on the job. The PR campaign to absolve Gates was him stating that bad choices were made. Deny anything without proof. And back pedal when they present the proof.

Warren Buffet used to be a close friend of Bill. Buffer promised the most of his wealth to Bill's charity organization. It seems the relationship has cooled quite a bit. This book felt like a scholarly academic paper. Lots of quotes from other people and other works. Not a fun book to read, especially compared to Bill's autobiography Source Code.

Source Code

This is an autobiography of Bill Gate's younger years. He went to a combination middle/high school. That gave him access to shared computing time. He and some friends worked on a program to manage student's class schedules. Later, to get access to more computing time, he and the friends worked for a startup that his friend's mom founded.

Bill went to Harvard for college. There he gained access to a DEC computer. He tried making a baseball simulation program on it. He also worked on a BASIC interpreter for a new home computer by MITS. He and his partner licensed BASIC to MITS. Later, the relationship with MITS went sour. They fought a legal battle and won an arbitration battle with MITS.

Initially Bill took a break from Harward to work on Microsoft business. He later apparently dropped out. They started getting work to implement BASIC in other home computers on other chip sets. They initially were a tiny company in New Mexico. They later moved back to Seattle, Washington, where Bill and his partner Paul Allen were from.