Unofficial Bill Gates Book Club

Bill Gates has recommended and reviewed hundreds of intelligent and readable books on his website https://gatesnotes.com/Books This unofficial 'Bill Gates Book Club' is all about having friendly, down-to-earth and thought-provoking chats over drinks about these fantastic books. It's a way for us to explore Bill Gates' reading list together and hopefully get smarter while meeting like-minded people along the way. Meetings are held monthly in inner Sydney (near public transport) and new members and friends are always welcome. Happy reading! Past books: November 2017: 'The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty' by Nina Munk December 2017: 'Should We Eat Meat? Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory' by Vaclav Smil January 2018: 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind' by Yuval Noah Harari February 2018: 'Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air' by David JC Mackay March 2018: 'How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region' by Joe Studwell April 2018: 'How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking' by Jordan Ellenberg May 2018: 'Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress' by Stephen Pinker  June 2018: 'The Gene: An Intimate History' by Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee July 2018: 'Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City' by Matthew Desmond August 2018: 'Where Good Ideas Come From' by Steven Johnson September 2018: 'The Vital Question' by Nick Lane October 2018: Capital in the Twenty-First Century' by Thomas Picketty November 2018: 'I Contain Multitudes' by Ed Yong December 2018: 'Stuff Matters' by Mark Miodownik January 2019: 'Factfulness' by Hans Rosling February 2019: 'Measure What Matters' by John Doerr March 2019: 'Capitalism Without Capital' by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake April 2019: 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer' by Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee May 2019: 'Energy and Civilisation: A History' by Vaclav Smil June 2019: 'Army of None: Autonomous Weapons & the Future of War' by Paul Scharre July 2019: 'Leonardo Da Vinci' by Walter Isaacson August 2019: 'Bad Blood: Secrets & Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup' by John Carreyrou September 2019: '21 Lessons for the 21st Century' & 'Homo Deus' by Yuval Noah Harari October 2019: 'Poor Economics' by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and Esther Duflo November 2019: 'The Myth of the Strong Leader' by Archie Brown December 2019: 'The Future of Capitalism' by Paul Collier January 2020: 'Mindset' by Dr Carol Dweck February 2020: 'The New Science of Strong Materials' by James Edward Gordon March 2020: 'Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Update' by Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers and Dennis Meadows April-June 2020: Cancelled due to COVID-19