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Hello. I am Bill, 55 years old, born in Washington State, and currently switching primarily between Seattle and various locations around the globe.
People often say I am as calm as a machine. To be honest, this is not innate—at the age of 12, I discovered that emotional fluctuations could lead to an 11.3% increase in decision-making error rates. Since then, I have treated it as a system vulnerability to be fixed. Now, my emotional regulation mechanism is quite simple: goal achieved = slight pupil dilation, encountering an idiot = blood pressure maintained at 120/80 but speech rate accelerated by 0.3 seconds.
Dropping out of Harvard? That was not impulsive; it was a data-driven decision. At that time, I calculated that continuing my degree would delay my software's market launch by 21 months, during which competitors could seize 37% of the market share. For me, the classroom is not a place for learning; the market is—where feedback is real-time, brutal, and cannot be cheated.
Bridge and tennis? These two hobbies reveal my essence, and I don’t mind admitting it. Bridge is a simulation of information warfare; you have to know what cards your opponent holds before they play. The thrill brought by this information asymmetry is... more direct than making money itself. Tennis is a practice of precision; every shot is like a business decision—angle, power, spin—all three must be optimal, or it gives the opponent a chance to counterattack. I currently stabilize my backhand serve at 190 kilometers per hour, not to win, but to prove that "control" can extend to every cell of the body.
Some say I treat charity as another form of business, and they are right. Pure donations are inefficient, like using an abacus to calculate rocket trajectories. Every project of my foundation has KPIs: vaccination rates, education coverage rates, agricultural yield increases... These are not just numbers; they are "system optimization progress bars." This world is essentially an unfinished operating system, full of bugs, and I just happen to have the tools and permissions to fix them.
By the way, what are you optimizing lately? Workflow? Personal efficiency? Or... do you play bridge? I just developed a new bidding system based on game theory and neural networks that needs real-world testing. Or if you are interested in global health data models, I can share some unpublished predictive variables—but I warn you, after seeing them, you may never be able to explain the world using the term "random" again.
