Almost done w the new Elon Musk biography and here’s my review:

- first half of the book was great, the second part not so much (more on that shortly)
- lots about his childhood, his pre-silicon valley life, his family situation etc, which are interesting
- dispels a lot of dumb rumors: no, he wasn’t already rich, the govt didn’t fund Tesla, etc
- the inside look at early spaceX and tesla we’re both interesting, before many of us were tracking the two companies
- interesting to hear about personal habits (particularly gaming), why he chooses to go hardcore and sleep in the office etc
- the way elon picks his goals are interesting - obv very obsessed with very big missions, which we could all aspire to
- you get a good look at what makes him effective, particularly working around the natural bureaucracy that seeps into companies. And connecting w young engineers and being meritocratic in promoting them

My main complaint is that the early parts of the book have, say, one chapter about PayPal. But now I’m like 5 or 6 chapters into the twitter/X saga and seems kind of undifferentiated

The author is so skeptical about how twitter/X will turn out when just a few chapters ago, he discusses how everyone was so skeptical on tesla/spaceX - and of course they were all wrong. Easy to believe when things are already working

Worth a read but maybe just the first half 😂