7 Smart Things Bill Gates Learned When He Was Still Young Enough for It to Matter

Plus, his big move 20 years ago this month. Then, a piece of a listicle from five years ago, and of course: 7 other things worth a click.

Funny thing. Bill Gates took to Twitter yesterday to tweet a list of his seven most favorite tweets.

The occasion is—and honestly, who commemorates this?—but it’s the 10th anniversary of when Gates jointed Twitter.

(That means that I joined Twitter 15 months earlier. Unlike Gates, we just held a quiet little dinner to celebrate.*)

I’m trying to put a finger on exactly why Gates’s tweet about tweets caught my attention.

Perhaps it’s because by all rights Microsoft should have been able to build Twitter long before Jack Dorsey and crew did.

Also, Gates is currently worth about $110 billion, and the entire market cap of Twitter is only about $26 billion.

Anyway, I took the bait, and I wrote for Inc.com this morning about the commonalities among the tweets Gates picked as his favorites. (In short, they have nothing to do with anything from the first half of his life; they’re all about either his relationships or his anti-poverty initiatives.)

HOWEVER…

There’s actually a much more momentous Gat…