newsy items esp. disrupting one's comfort zone

[red_lynx]

Brian Grazer on why he likes to disrupt his comfort zone This is so me ...

And while I was at npr.org finding the above link, I found:

I related to this story on autism, too, even though I think my "eccentricity" derives from different causes, some of Carley's experiences were eerily familiar.

Buffett Gift Sends $31 Billion to Gates Foundation

Comments

[kitten_goddess]

Thank you for the autism article. I was diagnosed with that at age three, when I wasn't talking. When I was taken to speech therapy, I started talking, so that diagnosis was quickly scrapped.

I thought I might have Asperger's, but I don't. I have no trouble making friends and keeping them, and I've never had trouble finding relationships, either, once I started dating. I am very strange, and do not have the conventional "social skills" that normal people seem to think are important. Yet I still reap the rewards that people with these skills have. I think this is because I found geek culture and immersed myself in it, so I don't interact with normal people most of the time.

[red_lynx]

Glad it was useful.

There are various forms of autism, Asperger's is just one.

==I am very strange

Same here!

[kitten_goddess]

I thought all the other forms of autism were more severe than Asperger's, with obvious symptoms.

[vvalkyri]

Whatever one feels about Microsoft, Gates and the Gates foundation are doing good work. And Buffet and Gates have an affinity in that they're both multibillionaires who don't believe that huge wealth should be hereditary.

[red_lynx]

==Whatever one feels about Microsoft, Gates and the Gates foundation are doing good work.

Hmm. It seems so from what I've read, but I haven't followed the track record of the Gates Foundation.

I was joking in that I do run Windows at home.

If I had $31 billion to give away, I'd be more inclined to set up my own foundation, not for ego reasons, but so that I could establish the principles it had to abide by after my death. However, Buffett's stated reason for not doing so (risk, why mess with a good thing) is logical.

The NPR coverage went into the Gates Foundation's focus on infectious diseases but only mentioned in passing that they were also trying to improve education in the U.S. That's also desparately needed.

==And Buffet and Gates have an affinity in that they're both multibillionaires who don't believe that huge wealth should be hereditary.

Yes, i really liked Buffett's remark that your wealth should not be based on what womb you come from.