Bill Gates
b. 1955
Practices documented by him: heavy reading, 'Think Weeks' to study problems, and using data to choose philanthropic targets.
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Domain skills
- 1968
School computer terminal
Spent many hours programming as a teenager.
Train: Logical Reasoning - 1975
Microsoft
Co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen.
Train: Decision Making - Method
Think Weeks
Took week-long retreats to read and write about big questions.
Train: Reading Comprehension - 2000 onward
Gates Foundation
Targeted diseases by measured impact per dollar.
Train: Money Sense
Essential General Skills
Transferable skills mapped to this role.
Essential General Skills
Each skill includes a lesson, worked example, assessment, real-life task, and adaptive game. Two correct answers raise the challenge; one miss lowers it.
Reading Comprehension
Good readers ask questions before, during and after reading — they read actively.
- Skim headings: what is this about?
- Read one paragraph; say its main point.
- Separate stated facts from guesses.
- Summarise in two sentences.
Read one newspaper article and summarise it in two sentences for a family member.
- CommonLit ↗
Free graded passages with questions.
Inference Room
Adaptive rule: two correct in a row raises difficulty, one miss lowers it. Accuracy so far 0%.
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