Elon Musk: by Walter Isaacson

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What Isaacson’s biography reveals through its personalized lens on Musk’s work with Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI, and more is not only what Musk wants, but how and why he plans to do it.

Isaacson’s book is like a decoder ring, tying the mercurial Musk’s various obsessions into a coherent worldview with a startlingly concrete goal at its center. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress? Maybe so, but there’s actual science fact: brain-machine interfaces had been implanted in humans as early as 2006, something Isaacson doesn’t mention.Unless the woke-mind virus, which is fundamentally anti-science, anti-merit and anti-human in general, is stopped,” he declares, “civilization will never become multiplanetary. When Musk tweets, “Take the red pill,” in 2020, Isaacson notes that it’s a reference to The Matrix but does not add that The Matrix is a movie made by two people who later came out as trans. There is even a “genius” boxed set of his biographies that includes Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and — somewhat incongruously — Steve Jobs. Is achieving the specific vision Musk has for the world worth the injuries he’s inflicted on his workforce?

One of the things that anyone covering Elon Musk for long enough has to reckon with is that he loves to tell hilarious lies. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from.One of the greatest biographers in America has written a massive book about the richest man in the world. The book was written by Walter Isaacson, a former executive at CNN, TIME and the Aspen Institute who had previously written best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci. Presumably one or more of the Musks — Elon is quoted directly as saying the counselors told him not to die like another kid in a previous year. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. These long-standing right-wing ties belie the notion advanced by Isaacson that the real cause of Musk’s right-wing pivot is his daughter, Jenna; I found these sections of the book difficult to read, as they essentially amount to victim blaming.

He really said he’d replace the rear seats with thrusters, and journalists spent time trying to figure out what the fuck that meant. On November 10, 2023, it was announced that A24 had purchased the film rights for an adaptation to be directed by Darren Aronofsky.As the people closest to him will attest, he lacks empathy — something that Isaacson describes as a “gene” that’s “hard-wired. There are a number of curious assertions in that sentence, but it would have been nice if Isaacson had pushed him to answer a basic question: What on earth does any of it even mean? Walter Isaacson is the bestselling author of biographies of Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein. This reporting did not pass the smell test to me, and I said so at the time; I wondered about the sourcing. It’s not unusual for queer people to hide from parents they suspect will reject them; there is a reason many gay and trans people have “ found families.