The New York Times reports:
At various moments in “Elon Musk,” Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the world’s richest person, the author tries to make sense of the billionaire entrepreneur he has shadowed for two years — sitting in on meetings, getting a peek at emails and texts, engaging in “scores of interviews and late-night conversations.”
Musk is a mercurial “man-child,” Isaacson writes, who was bullied relentlessly as a kid in South Africa until he grew big enough to beat up his bullies. Musk talks about having Asperger’s, which makes him “bad at picking up social cues.” As the people closest to him will attest, he lacks empathy — something that Isaacson describes as a “gene” that’s “hard-wired.”
The musician Grimes, the mother of three of Musk’s children (the existence of the third, Techno Mechanicus, nicknamed Tau, has been kept private until now), calls his roiling anger “demon mode” — a mind-set that “causes a lot of chaos.” She also insists that it allows him to get stuff done.
Read the full article. Fascinating and horrifying. Gift link here. Musk, who has at least 10 children, including twins with an employee, has two other children with Grimes named X Æ A-Xii and Exa Dark Sideræl Musk.
Book Review: Our critic reviews “Elon Musk,” by Walter Isaacson, which depicts a mercurial “man-child” with grandiose ambitions and an ego to match. https://t.co/ad1x57O0n2
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 9, 2023
This is pretty much what Twitter is now. A gamergate guy who has never left Malaysia posts toxic memes about US schools for money, and the richest man in the world boosts it as part of an ongoing attack on US public institutions. pic.twitter.com/i5YRJPm9TI
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) September 9, 2023
🔴 Elon Musk was driven to take over Twitter after fearing his transgender daughter had been infected with a “woke mind virus” incubated on the social media platform https://t.co/g0U6EJQf0s
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) September 1, 2023