Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson | Book Club

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Pages to read: 686
ISBN: 9781982181284 (Originally listed edition)
ISBN: 9781982181307 (Edition Eugene is using)

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While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•Who is Elon Musk?
•How does Elon respond to fear?
•How does Elon respond to contentment?
•Does Elon have Asperger’s?
•How did Elon learn the difference between what people said and meant?
•Was Elon interested or hardware or software?
•What does Elon think of technological progress?
•What did Elon learn at Zip2?
•What happened between Zip2 and PayPal?
•Why SpaceX?
•What is America’s approach to space?
•What happened to the NASA’s cost-plus contracts?
•What happened at Kwaj?
•What was the space race?
•What is Starlink?
•Why Tesla?
•Was Tesla bailed out by the government?
•What is Tesla’s self-driving approach?
•What happened with the SEC?
•What was the approach with China?
•What was Tesla’s approach to vehicle accidences?
•Why Neuralink?
•What does Elon think of Artificial Intelligence?
•Why SolarCity?
•Why The Boring Company?
•Why Twitter / X?
•How did Elon effect content moderation?
•What does Elon think of psychological safety?
•What was Twitter’s political bias?
•What is Elon’s management style?
•What is The Algorithm?
•Is being a tough and cruel needed to innovate?
•What was Elon’s approach to engineers and product designers?
•What is Elon’s approach to risk?
•What is Elon’s approach to costs?
•What is Elon’s approach to deadlines?
•What is Elon’s approach to experimentation?
•What did Elon think of rules?
•What is Elon’s approach to automation?
•What is Elon’s approach to feedback?
•What material does Elon favor?
•What does Elon think of woke?
•What were Elon’s inspirational sources?
•How did Elon effect Ukraine?
•What does Elon think of Bill Gates?
•What is reddskool?
•How did Kimbal Musk affect Elon?
•How did Maye Musk affect Elon?
•How did Errol Musk affect Elon?
•How did Elon behave in relationships?
•What was Elon’s relationship with Justine?
•What was Elon’s relationship with Talulah?
•What was Elon’s relationship with Amber Heard?
•What was Elon’s relationship with Grimes?
•What happened to Elon’s children?
•What happened after the Rio vacation in 2001?

Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.