Elon Musk: by Walter Isaacson

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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.

Here are some other ones: If Musk were more receptive to criticism, would his companies be in better shape? Musk’s word was good enough for him — and so, when Musk contested the characterization, Isaacson rolled over. 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. Musk's humour – he took the 'w' out of the Twitter sign in San Francisco because 'tit' is so inherently funny – has 'many levels'.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. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue and charismatic fantasist. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. Could you get the rockets to orbit or the transition to electric vehicles without accepting all aspects of him, hinged and unhinged? These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. Crucially, though, this article says nothing about Ukrainian submarines — instead, it’s primarily about aerial vehicles. If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.

However, Musk denied the allegation, saying satellites in the region were not turned on, and that he chose not to activate them. In the following paragraph, Isaacson quotes text messages from Fedorov, who had “secretly shared with him [Musk] the details of how the drone subs were crucial” to the Ukrainians. I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life,’ he said. Isaacson boils Musk down to two men… the result is a beat-by-beat book that follows him insider important rooms and explores obscure regions of his mind. In this chapter, Isaacson cites stories where rank-and-file workers complained about being pressured to take shortcuts and work 10-hour days.

He now says that the policy had been implemented earlier, but the Ukrainians did not know it, and that night he simply reaffirmed the policy.

We don’t hear Justine’s side of the story, except via a magazine article she published during her divorce, “ I Was a Starter Wife. Over the years, one criticism of Tesla has been that the company was ‘bailed out’ or ‘subsidized’ by the government in 2009. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground.

At the beginning of 2022—after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth—Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. Based on my conversations with Musk, I mistakenly thought the policy to not allow Starlink to be used for an attack on Crimea had been first decided on the night of the Ukrainian attempted sneak attack that night,” he wrote on Twitter.So he secretly told his engineers to turn off coverage within a hundred kilometers of the Crimean coast. For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. Brian Merchant of the Los Angeles Times criticized Isaacson's "great man" biography format as extremely dated and took issue with his persistent framing of Musk as a "moody but brilliant world-mover", writing, "The author will unearth unflattering personal anecdotes and share stories about the subject's capacity to be cruel.