Five books the Microsoft founder recommends for summer 2021.
“Whatever the reason, most of the books on my summer reading list this year touch on what happens when people come into conflict with the world around them,” the Microsoft founder wrote in a blog post on Monday, where he revealed his summer 2021 reading list.
Another running plot thread that his favorite books have had in common of late: delving into how people respond to conflict with the world around them. And his recent reads have included a look at the leadership failings of General Electric GE, +0.52%, the partisan bickering that dogged former President Barack Obama’s eight years in the White House, as well as an exploration of the human immune system.
“Today GE is worth a fraction what it was at its peak,” Gates says in an accompanying video. “So, an important book to see where the system went awry, which led to a fall for a great company.” “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future” Gates describes this book by Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert as “the most straightforward examination of ‘humanity versus nature’ on this list.” Kolbert addresses issues such as saving the coral reefs, and control flooding in southern Louisiana — as well as how, sometimes, human attempts to address one environmental crisis lead to a host of new issues.
“As president, your day is all about making monumental decisions that affect many people’s lives and livelihoods, and you have to focus on many problems at once,” he continues. What’s more, the book “may not have convinced me to move to a remote forest so I can live in a canopy, but it did make me think differently about my relationship with the trees right outside my window,” he says in his review.
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