Remarks of Bill Gates %u2014 The Harvard University Gazette

Remarks of Bill Gates %u2014 The Harvard University Gazette: "Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have %u2014 whether it%u2019s something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet."

It just isn't good enough to have a goal. I have lots of goals and most of them are not getting anywhere.

Finding a high-leverage approach is probably more important then we think. I am not going to worry about finding the highest-leverage approach, mainly because that would like to analysis paralysis and besides I probably don't know enough yet to find it an any case. Not to say I am dumb but things change when you start solving a problem.

It is almost Heisenbergian, Once you start doing things the nature of the problem you are trying to solve begins to change and that is unpredictable. In all likelihood the best solution hasn't been created yet but soon will be. That is the way it tends to happen.

Sometimes however it is a little perverse and the solution doesn't appear very easily but that is often because the type of solution I'm pursuing is not optimal and I need to change attack vectors.

Eek, It almost sounds like "The Secret" I am not into the law of attraction stuff but this has happened too often too deny it completely.

Taking Control Of Your Lifestyle

"No one knows for certain how many single-digit millionaires live in Silicon Valley. Certainly their numbers reach into the tens of thousands, say those who work with the area’s engineers and entrepreneurs. Yet nearly all of them still have all-consuming jobs, not only because the work gives them a sense of achievement and satisfaction but also because they think they must work so much to afford their gilded neighborhoods."

Most of those interviewed consider themselves "accidental millionaires." They didn't set out to make so much but they did anyway. Lifestyle isn't only about how you live but your ideals about how you should live your life.

I really doubt that they intended the life they have but they still seem to think that grinding away at work is what they need to do. At 80 hrs a week work isn't a part of your life but it takes up all of it. There is no room for family much less hobbies.

They even realize that moving to someplace like Kansas City would completely change everything. They would be really wealthy there but they are still working class in California.