Bill Gates: He eats Big Macs for lunch and schedules every minute of his day

Yeah honestly if it came down to this kind of to-the-second-planned lifestyle, just kill me now and get it over with. You can keep the money.<p>This is just me personally though. I&#x27;m sure Gates is used to it, and probably enjoys it. But it&#x27;s certainly nothing that I would want to aspire to.<p>I&#x27;m reminded of the sentiment: &quot;You have your place, and it&#x27;s not more exalted, relevant, profitable, or contributing to the general advancement of humankind than that of a pretty good salesman possibly selling a decent product. Or that of a pretty decent java developer, or a decent graphics designer.&quot;<p>But I still admire parts of his approach to life and I think he&#x27;s done some pretty cool stuff. The world is a beautiful place filled with many beautiful people, who are not heroes and can never be heroes...but can be wonderful human beings (which comes with all the faults of being human).<p>Ok let me stop talking before I go off on 20 other tangents. I haven&#x27;t had my morning coffee yet.

A few months ago some people from Bill&#x27;s team contacted us about a demo day that they personally give Bill every 4-6 weeks. This particular topic was on Agtech. They said they spend about 400-500 hours researching each market and preparing a 2-hour closed door demo day for Bill and a few of his advisors. For a particular topic they said they research the market and narrow it down to six or seven companies. They ask each company for a bunch of information and then his team gives Bill a 5-10 minute demo of each company followed by a question period.<p>This is probably just one of many examples how Bill is able to acquire information at such a higher rate than most of us. Quite literally he&#x27;s probably spending over a million dollars a month on education. For the rest of us, we just have to read HackerNews :)

I&#x27;m sure having a McDonald&#x27;s Gold Card helps: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;lifeandstyle&#x2F;shortcuts&#x2F;2015&#x2F;nov&#x2F;17&#x2F;free-big-macs-for-life-billionaire-rob-lowe-mcdonalds-gold-card" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;lifeandstyle&#x2F;shortcuts&#x2F;2015&#x2F;nov&#x2F;...</a>

oh I wish <i>this</i> millionaire stood as an independent presidential candidate!<p>He has demonstrated himself wise, kind, well meaning and uncorruptable.<p>I well remember how Microsoft was evil and Gates was the devil and we all loved to hate this success.<p>But applying himself to philanthropy he has demonstrated his intellectual integrity and genuine goodness.

I wonder if his schedule included 3 hours of YC news and random internet reading.

When every minute is probably like $10k+ in &quot;cost&quot;, I can see why you&#x27;d schedule every minute.

I remember a similar interview, years ago when he was still at Microsoft. He had 3 monitors, one was exclusive to e-mails and meetings every hour.

Does he order his big macs some special way so that the buns don&#x27;t slide?

He does seem to have an effective charity organization. There is a big focus on high-impact problems that other organizations just don&#x27;t have.

Paywall for me.