Very Ordinary Men | The Point Magazine
EV likes to emphasise its search for “moonshot” projects – high-impact ways of changing the world. Take, for example, Recidiviz, a criminal-justice non-profit that Cowen funded. It has helped free 70,000 parole-eligible people, using data tools, who would otherwise have remained under supervision. Yet if you browse the winning projects, it becomes ... See more
archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything
When I asked Gates why he had shorted Tesla, he explained that he had calculated that the supply of electric cars would get ahead of demand, causing prices to fall. I nodded but still had the same question: Why had he shorted the stock? Gates looked at me as if I had not understood what he just explained and then replied as if the answer was obviou
... See moreWalter Isaacson • Elon Musk
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
Constance Grady • The big Elon Musk biography asks all the wrong questions
Sometimes the shticks work together. Other times they clash in a way that makes someone even more compelling. Elon Musk literally builds rockets while being a pot stirrer on X. Marc Andreessen invests billions while propagating silly memes. One keeps them credible, the other on people’s minds.
Anu Atluru • Two Shticks
I read a tweet, written by a millennial—“Why is it that all the brightest minds of my generation are focused on making people click?”—that nails my deep disappointment in some of the entrepreneurs I meet.