Walter Isaacson shadowed the world’s most famous nerd for two years, talking to those closest to him
’s arrival on planet Earth are laid out in vivid detail on page 16 of this mammoth exploration of what reads like a wild but hollow 50 years of gambolling by the sun king of the tech revolution.
“Sometimes great innovators are risk-seeking man-children who resist potty training,” reasons Isaacson in the last paragraph of his book, one of his few attempts to analyse his subject. Instead, he lines up a host of family members, former partners and associates who riff freely on Musk’s psyche. Here’s Michael Marks, the Tesla investor and one of the many, many people who fell out with Musk: “He’s somewhere on the spectrum so I honestly don’t think he has any connection with people at all.
He assures Tallulah Riley that he is useless at the dating game, but they are engaged two weeks after meeting. She’s a young actor, smart and imbued with Brit fearlessness. “What’s the worst that could happen to us?” she asks Elon, in the spirit of wildfire romance. “One of us could die,” her beau solemnly tells her.: “Night after night, Musk sat upright on the edge of his bed next to Grimes, unable to sleep.
Perhaps. The paragraph is like a synopsis of Musk’s life: unorthodox, confusing, bizarre, jet-lagged and a little saddening. Littered on the pages, too, are unexpected treats, like Musk’s first meeting with Trump; two savants circling.
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