Elon Musk<\/em>Walter Isaacson has written a book that’s each enlightening and revealing. It\u2019s good. It got here out on September 12, and I\u2019m already about halfway into the book, which clocks in at a hefty 688 pages.<\/p>\nBanner 3<\/p>\n
I won\u2019t spoil any revelations from the book should you plan to read it, especially the parts about his family dynamics or the early chapters about his life before becoming the richest person on the earth. Any biography which dwells too heavily on the early years of a family\u2019s life tends to bore me. You need to examine \u201cthe good things\u201d that made someone famous. With this book, from the opening chapter onward, you get an inside peek into Musk\u2019s adolescence.<\/p>\n
The book is incredibly detailed in relation to his inner world \u2014 you begin to grasp what makes him tick. The book is sprinkled with quotes from friends, his family, and Musk, which add authenticity to the events described. But what keeps you reading your entire time is the fascinating psychology of this world-famous entrepreneur. He\u2019s a genius. Isaacson said that he was a really random person.<\/p>\n
Within the book, there may be a story concerning the beginnings of SpaceX. It tells how they began testing their rockets. It used launchpads in California initially, but then Musk suddenly decided he didn\u2019t need to wait for the federal government to complete its own launches. Musk shipped rockets from California to Kwaj, but this was a nasty idea because of its remoteness and other aspects.<\/p>\n
For a second, I needed to pause and reflect on that. Isaacson describes how you begin an unlimited company, SpaceX. impatience<\/em>You select, as a substitute of launching rockets half way internationally. Musk and his entourage questioned this decision on the time.<\/p>\nIt was a brief jump from the past to now. Based on Wall Street Journal<\/em>Musk took several unplanned decisions in relation to Twitter. Musk fired people, modified the corporate name and now might charge a subscription fee. Isaacson paints an image of somebody who’s incredibly random, and the way that\u2019s frustrating to everyone around him. He\u2019s abrupt and makes rash decisions on a dime, like moving those rockets.<\/p>\nBut yet.<\/p>\n
Isaacson describes the successful first SpaceX launch as well and suggests that there can be more to come back. I haven\u2019t read far enough to know this from the book, but obviously Musk also turned Tesla right into a dynamo.<\/p>\n
All of this has caused me to rethink Musk\u2019s master plan for X. The corporate that was formerly referred to as Twitter. Musk, like the opposite tech geniuses who got here before him in the sector of technology, is at all times stirring up the pot. It seems he likes it this manner. When there\u2019s a good move to be made about retaining brand integrity with Twitter, he does the other and randomly decides to dump the brand. He suddenly decides to charge for an app that almost all people wouldn’t pay to download. He isn\u2019t going to attend to construct X into something price a subscription.<\/p>\n
I truthfully don\u2019t think any of it will work. X is ripping off users from left to right. It\u2019s almost like Musk prefers to fail as much as possible after which see what happens.<\/p>\n
Lots of these early rockets were destroyed. Twitter\u2019s own implosion is going on. Could it’s that this was at all times the intention? At this scale of disruption, innovation at all times involves drama.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m rethinking every little thing about his strategy. He’s purposefully blowing up Twitter, perhaps as a method to see what\u2019s left and who remains to be interested. As I discovered within the book, he\u2019s someone who likes to create chaos and confusion after which see what\u2019s still standing, and he at all times has.<\/p>\n
Before, it worked. It worked before. Let\u2019s wait and see.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n