While surfing Goodreads, Amardeep Parmar, co-editor of Entrepreneur’s Handbook, stumbled across an interesting name while looking at reviews of Jared Diamond’s Upheaval. “The last name I expected at the top was the $100 billion Microsoft founder,” Parmar writes in a piece on Medium, “I assumed it was a spoof account, surely he is too busy saving the world to have time for this kind of thing.” It turns out, however, it was no spoof. It’s […]
What do Oprah Winfrey, Jon Stewart and Bill Gates have in common? Aside from drive, passion and a certain geeky charisma, all three have created themselves as literary stylemakers almost as a by-product of the other — much more visible things — they do. Bill Gates reading. Oprah started it, of course: offering her reading choices with Oprah’s Book Club beginning in the late 1990s, instantly creating author celebrities while making reading newly cool. (Thank […]
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