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Bill Gates is so smart it took him his entire life to learn what we already know

When even the billionaires start arguing against work, you know we've gone way too fucking far. from a new interview: “You are not a slacker if you cut yourself some slack,” a wistful Gates told the forestry and engineering graduates of Northern Arizona University (NAU) over the weekend in a commencement speech, which he later published to his personal blog, Gates Notes. “When I was your age, I didn't believe in vacations. I didn't believe in weekends. I pushed everyone around me to work very long hours.” “In the early days of Microsoft, my office overlooked the parking lot — and I would keep track of who was leaving early and staying late.” Intense! But as Gates admitted shortly thereafter, his eyes-on-the-parking-lot level of intensity may not have been entirely healthy — not for him, and definitely not for the people around him. “But as I got older — and…


When even the billionaires start arguing against work, you know we've gone way too fucking far.

from a new interview:

“You are not a slacker if you cut yourself some slack,” a wistful Gates told the forestry and engineering graduates of Northern Arizona University (NAU) over the weekend in a commencement speech, which he later published to his personal blog, Gates Notes. “When I was your age, I didn't believe in vacations. I didn't believe in weekends. I pushed everyone around me to work very long hours.”

“In the early days of Microsoft, my office overlooked the parking lot — and I would keep track of who was leaving early and staying late.”

Intense! But as Gates admitted shortly thereafter, his eyes-on-the-parking-lot level of intensity may not have been entirely healthy — not for him, and definitely not for the people around him.

“But as I got older — and especially once I became a father — I realized there is more to life than work,” Gates added. “Don't wait as long as I did to learn this lesson. Take time to nurture your relationships, to celebrate your successes, and to recover from your losses.”

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