Agree with this take. Some of the anecdotes and meta discussions are good but feels like linearity felt like he only scratched the surface. https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1708566580911845550
Isaacson had access to Elon & included a painstaking amount of detail. The difference between biographies & a living person is that ~the work is still being done~ That is always going to be a messier story than writing ex post. You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
Yea this also begs the question though of why this was written while Elon is alive? let alone at his peak not like 70. The labyrinth is still shifting feels off.
I saw superficially somewhere that it was commissioned by Musk so that’s a big difference. I put together a few insights from the book: https://getairchat.com/petrikaj/elonmusk
IMO the best Musk biography is the one written by his ex-wife, if your goal is to understand him and his motivations (despite it not being a great book)
If I’m reading the musk biography now which do you recommend reading next?! Have read the innovators but none of his other biographies.