Educated
2025-05-23我一直為自己自學的能力感到自豪。每當我對某件事不太了解時，我就會讀教科書或看線上課程，直到弄懂為止。
我原以為自己很擅長自學——直到讀了塔拉·韋斯特沃（Tara Westover）的回憶錄《垃圾場長大的自學人生》（Educated）。她自學的能力完全把我比了下去。最近我有機會和她坐下來聊聊這本書，感到非常興奮。
塔拉在愛達荷州鄉村一個摩門教生存主義家庭長大。她父親對政府的看法非常非主流。他相信…
Bill Gates
Entrepreneur, philanthropist, software developer
Co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, one of the wealthiest people in the world, and a leading philanthropist through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
2025 · Recommended List
2025
The holidays are almost here. I always love taking advantage of this time of year to catch up on reading, and I know a lot of people feel the same way. There’s something about the quieter days around the holidays that makes it easier to sit down with a good book. So I’m sharing a few recent favorites. Each of these books pulls back the curtain on how something important really works: how people find purpose later in life, how we should think about climate change, how creative industries evolve, how humans communicate, and how America lost its capacity to build big things—and how to get it back. I hope you find something here that sparks your curiosity. And I hope your holiday season is filled with happy loved ones, good food, and great conversation.
