Five or six years ago Bill Gates did a presentation to a small group at Microsoft on his philanthropic work at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It was by far and away the most compelling talk I had seen in that it was Bill applying his talent to solving world health problems with the same relentless drive, depth of understanding, constant learning, excitement and focus with which he applied himself daily (at the time) at Microsoft.

Thanks to O’Reilly, I just watched an interview with Bill by Charlie Rose which has a lot of the same character and Bill makes some of the same points as that talk I saw some years ago. Find it in Dale Dogherty post Admiring Bill Gates. It’s well worth watching.

–jrh