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Walter Isaacson
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Walter Isaacson
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The Greatest Sentence Ever Written: a.co/d/apuMHYU Also, bios of Musk, Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo, Franklin, Einstein, Jobs. Professor @Tulane
- Late last night, after winning his battle for Twitter, @elonmusk was in Boca Chica and held his regular 10 pm meeting on Raptor engine design, where he spent more than an hour working on valve leak solutions. No one mentioned Twitter. He can multitask.
- Germany, by two Turkish immigrants.That’s great. Just out of curiosity, which country was it that developed the vaccine? Wonder why.
- That equates to $1.5 million in tax every DAY since he became a US citizen in 2002.For those wondering, I will pay over $11 billion in taxes this year
- To clarify on the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not. They asked Musk to enable it for their drone sub attack on the Russian fleet. Musk did not enable it, because he thought, probably correctly, that would cause a
- Yes, and it’s getting even more interesting.If you’re curious about Tesla, SpaceX & my general goings on, @WalterIsaacson is writing a biography
- Maybe the greatest sentence ever written by human hands (Jefferson with edits from Franklin and Adams): We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
- In 2009, I argued that social networks should enable micropayments for stories and songs and videos.
- Elon Musk in the Starship control room right now with Shana Diez and Joe Petrzelka
- The infatuation of @elonmusk with the name X.com goes way back. Here are some excerpts from my upcoming book, amazon.com/Elon-Musk-Walt… "When his cousin Peter Rive visited in early 1999, he found Musk poring over books about the banking system. “I’m trying to
- I got this text message from Elon Musk at 4:44am CT showing a screenshot of some text messages in which he tells Mark Zuckerberg they should fight this Monday at Zuckerberg’s home in Palo Alto.
- From amazon.com/Elon-Musk-Walt… on Musk meeting @Grimezsz: "Every now and then, often at the most complex of times, the Creators of Our Simulation—those rascals who conjure up what we are led to believe is reality—drop in a sparky new element, one that creates chaotic new
