Timothy Egan: Bill Gates is the most interesting man in the world

“It tires me to talk to rich men,” said Teddy Roosevelt, himself a product of wealth. “You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worth hearing. But as a rule, they don’t know anything outside their own businesses.”Had T.R. spent time with Bill Gates, the polymath who predicted the pandemic in a TED Talk, he likely would have made an exception.Gates is everywhere these days, a lavender-sweatered Mister Rogers for the curious and quaranti