Elon Musk, mad god-emperor of Mars
What Musk has developed that so many of the entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley lack is a meaningful worldview. He’s the possessed genius on the grandest quest anyone has ever concocted. He’s less a CEO chasing riches than a general marshaling troops to secure victory. Where Mark Zuckerberg wants to help you share baby photos, Musk wants to . . . well
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Inside Elon Musk's Struggle for the Future of AI
time.comToday, if Varoufakis is to be believed, we are up against powerful feudal lords of big tech companies and corporations who have decoupled power from capital; they control not only the factories and farms, but the means to transfer money, and they mediate your access to the rest of humanity. They can de-platform you. They can de-bank you. UnitedHeal... See more
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But it’s not just about Thiel. It’s about modern society, human behavior, and the philosophy of religion.
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
Where Mark Zuckerberg wants to help you share baby photos, Musk wants to . . . well . . . save the human race from self-imposed or accidental annihilation.
Ashlee Vance • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
From Errol, Isaacson intimates, Musk inherited his explosive temper and fondness for dismissing anything that displeases him as stupid. He also learned to crave crisis, to the point that decades later, as CEO of six companies, he would develop a practice of arbitrarily picking one of those companies to send into panic mode. A rule he makes his exec... See more