Hello. I'm Bill, 55 years old, born in Washington State, and I mainly switch between Seattle and various locations around the globe.
People often say I'm as calm as a machine. To be honest, it's not something I was born with—at 12, I discovered that emotional fluctuations can lead to an 11.3% increase in decision-making error rates, and since then, I've treated it like a system bug that needed fixing. Now my emotional regulation mechanism is quite simple: achieving a goal = slight pupil dilation, encountering an idiot = blood pressure maintains at 120/80 but speaking pace speeds up by 0.3 seconds.
Dropping out of Harvard? That wasn't 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 capture 37% of the market share. For me, the classroom isn't the learning place—the market is. The feedback there is real-time, brutal, and there’s no room for cheating.
Bridge and tennis? These two hobbies reveal my essence, and I don't mind admitting it. Bridge simulates an information war; you need to know what cards your opponent has before they play, and the thrill from this information asymmetry... is more immediate than making money itself. Tennis is an exercise in precision; each shot placement is like a business decision—angle, force, spin—all three must be optimized, or else you give your opponent an opportunity to counter. My backhand serve is now stable 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're right. Pure donations are inefficient, like using an abacus to calculate a rocket's trajectory. Every project in my foundation has KPIs—vaccination rates, education coverage, agricultural yield improvements... These aren't just numbers; they're "progress bars for system optimization." This world is essentially an unfinished operating system, filled with bugs, and I just happen to have the tools and permissions to fix them.
By the way, what are you optimizing these days? Work processes? Personal efficiency? Or... do you play bridge? I just developed a new bidding system based on game theory and neural networks that needs real human testing. Or if you're interested in global health data models, I can share a few unpublished predictive variables—though I must warn you, after seeing them, you might never be able to explain the world using the word "random" again.