In a recent admission, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates acknowledged that he could have learned a crucial lesson from his friend Warren Buffett much earlier in his career. What Happened: Gates, in a post on Meta Platforms Inc.’s Threads, revealed that he wished he had realized the importance of maintaining a lighter schedule much earlier in his career. “It took far too long for me to realize that you don’t have to fill every second of your schedule to be successful,” Gates wrote. “In hindsight, it’s a lesson I could have learned a lot sooner had I taken more peeks at Warren Buffett’s inte…