Bill Gates: My Plan to Fix The World's Biggest Problems
I don't get the negativity in this thread.  Bill Gates is trying to solve hard problems and people here are complaining.  Sure, they may not be the problems that <i>you</i> think are most important, and I'm sure the foundation is making missteps along the way and wasting some money. But his message in this article is a good one I think:<p>> <i>The process I have described—setting clear goals, choosing an approach, measuring results, and then using those measurements to continually refine our approach</i><p>This sounds like a pretty pragmatic plan to me.  I know that I don't necessarily agree with the direction he's going (I would personally pick other problems to tackle), so I just hope someday I'm in a position to do something along the same vein and learn from the lessons he's willing to share.