When a group of children were trapped in a cave in Thailand, Musk tweeted that one rescue diver who dismissed his offer to build a submersible was a “ pedo guy.” (Musk later apologized, but not easily.) On Joe Rogan’s podcast, he smoked marijuana, risking his status as a U.S. The year 2018 was an inflection point in the perception of Musk as a public figure, one that foreshadowed his pandemic evolution in 2020 from moderate Democrat to trolling conservative. The two Elon Musks, before and after 2018’s Tesla ‘production hell’ (or Amber Heard, or his daughter’s transition) Crazy enough to think they can change the world.”īooks Elon Musk confirms he and Grimes privately welcomed a third child, Techno MechanicusĮlon Musk and Grimes have a third child named Techno Mechanicus, the tech mogul confirmed ahead of the release of Walter Isaacson’s forthcoming biography. They can be reckless, cringeworthy, sometimes even toxic. Sometimes great innovators are risk-seeking man-children who resist potty training. Then, a few paragraphs later, the needle on Isaacson’s moral compass wobbles: “But would a restrained Musk accomplish as much as a Musk unbound?. Isaacson weighs in on the subject only at the end of his book: “Do the audaciousness and hubris that drive him to attempt epic feats excuse his bad behavior, his callousness, his recklessness? The times he’s an a-? The answer is no, of course not.” It’s natural for a reader to wonder whether trying to decarbonize the auto industry or avoid humanity’s extinction justifies the chaos, the bullying, the poor labor standards - the trouble. Elon replied that they were doomed, and “I think they should die.” He was briefly estranged from his brother, Kimbal, after the latter - who once helped rescue Tesla financially - asked for help with his own restaurants. During the first dance at his wedding with his first wife, Justine, he whispered to her, “I am the alpha in this relationship.” In 2016, he accused journalists of “killing people” (by discrediting self-driving technology) after they asked questions about the first drivers to die in Tesla Autopilot accidents. But elsewhere, Elon’s own frequent lack of empathy is bolstered by ample evidence. Nothing Elon Musk says in the book is as jarring as his own father’s sometimes bizarre and racist comments. His volatile emotional states are the biggest constant in a book that zigzags from cars to rockets, tunneling to AI, solar energy to neural implants. At one point, Musk calls himself bipolar. Musk’s moods are variously described as cycling through “light and dark, intense and goofy, detached and emotional, with occasional plunges into what people around him call ‘demon mode’” he’s “childlike, almost stunted,” “a drama magnet,” “not bred for domestic tranquility” he has “a craving for storm and drama” and “erratic emotional oscillations.” Multiple people describe him as having undiagnosed Asperger’s. Musk is tormented, erratic and rude, over and over again Isaacson’s biography is a Musk agonistes: a portrait of a (largely) self-made, emotionally volatile entrepreneur from South Africa who has a tortured relationship with his father and an addiction to crises of the self-inflicted variety. Musk is already one of the most well-known and extensively covered leaders in American corporate life (and one of its most unavoidable figures on the service he has renamed X). Walter Isaacson’s newest book, “ Elon Musk,” about the temperamental corporate executive who runs Tesla, SpaceX and the company formerly known as Twitter, goes on sale this week. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.
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