In the first eight chapters of Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood, I felt very connected to John as a reader. This book does a great job at giving his perspective on the matter. The fact that “[His] earliest and most vivid memories involve reading”(John Wood), really sells you on why he is volunteering all his time and effort into this project. Similar to John, some of my earliest and most vivid memories were on creating simple video games with pre set coding blocks in computer class. In fact, this book has inspired me to go help teach younger children to do the same.

The mood of this book is greatly resembled by the “[Him insisting] upon countless rereadings of [classic books]”. This is great proof of the importance of reading to him as a successful businessman to the extent he would even consider quitting his well paying job in order to devote all of his time to this.