Bill Gates Has Some Leadership Lessons For You

Great start to week breakfast with @BillGates in DC #LessonsFromLeaders ... the ultimate thought-leader
— Nick Owens (@MSPLLC) September 29, 2014

Lesson #1:

Only listen to yourself. No one else knows anything but you.

Lesson # 2:

Have more money than God so you don't have to listen to anybody else.

Lesson #3:

Be as ruthless in business as possible, stealing as many ideas as you can from others and crushing as many opponents as you can - buy ideas and opponents only when you have to - so that you can make more money than God and never have to listen to anybody but yourself.

Lesson # 4:

Take some of the money you made from being a ruthless cutthroat and go into "philanthropy," spreading the message far and wide what a good guy you are even though you really are nothing more than a selfish, self-centered self-absorbed jerk.

Lesson # 5:

Repeat.

Microsoft Set To Release Windows 8 - Negative Reviews Abound

Microsoft announced the launch date for Windows 8 last month.

It will come out on October 26.

Given the negative reviews they've had so far over the new system, they may not want to launch at all.

Here are a few:

As bad as Vista.

A "technological, ideological, and functional failure."

A "catastrophe for pc's."

Tell me again, why do we listen to the guy who owns Microsoft on things like education policy and health care when it's clear that, other than being a ruthless, charmless shmuck willing to fuck his cancer-ridden partner out of his stake in the company and/or steal most of his "innovations" from other companies, this guy isn't too successful at anything in his own business?

If he can't get the computer stuff right, what makes anybody think he can get education policy, vaccine research, or food policy right?