His mother was a model who spent most of her time at work his father was an engineer and a wheeler-dealer with a violent temper. Isaacson portrays Musk as someone who loves chaos and has no empathyĮlon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1971. The risk-seeking man-child has amassed the power to have world leaders fawn over his unilateral judgment. And not just wants, but does more than anybody else for this.” “We look through the eyes of Ukrainians,” Fedorov responded, “and you from the position of a person who wants to save humanity. “Risk of WW3 becomes very high,” Musk explained in a private exchange with Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. “Could you get the rockets to orbit or the transition to electric vehicles without accepting all aspects of him, hinged and unhinged? Sometimes great innovators are risk-seeking man-children who resist potty training.”Ī hundred pages earlier, Isaacson depicted the man he describes as “resisting potty training” personally making the call that Ukraine should cede Crimea to Russia and on those grounds declining to extend satellite services to the Ukrainian military in the disputed territory. “Would a restrained Musk accomplish as much as a Musk unbound?” Isaacson muses in the final sentences of the book. The great question of Isaacson’s book is more or less the same question he posed in his 2011 biography of Steve Jobs: Is the innovation worth the assholery? Can we excuse Jobs’s cruelty to his partner Steve Wozniak because we have the iPhone? Can we excuse Musks’s many sins - his capricious firings, his callousness, his willingness to move fast and break things even when the things that get broken are human lives - because after all, he opened up the electric car market and reinvigorated the possibility for American space travel? Is it okay that Musk is an asshole if he’s also accomplishing big things? “Or, to put it in less technical terms, he could be an asshole.” He was not hardwired to have empathy,” Isaacson writes. “He didn’t have the emotional receptors that produce everyday kindness and warmth and a desire to be liked. Things that are not in Musk’s nature according to Isaacson: deference empathy restraint the ability to collaborate the instinct to think about how the things he says impact the people around him doting on his children vacations. Things that are in Musk’s nature according to Isaacson: the desire for total control obsession resistance to rules and regulations insensitivity a love of drama and chaos and urgency. Certain things, Isaacson writes again and again in his dense and thoroughly reported book, are simply “in Musk’s nature,” while others are “not in his nature.” This is a book in which Elon Musk - the richest man in history and surely one of the most infuriating, too - is driven by an immovable internal essence that no one can alter, least of all Musk himself. “I don't want to be a police officer.There’s a recurring phrase in Walter Isaacson’s new biography Elon Musk. “I'm already a babysitter, a mother, a mental health counselor,” said Takhtani. More than half of US teachers believe being armed would make schools less safe, according to a recent survey from the RAND Corporation. Most educators, however, say putting guns in teachers’ hands isn’t the answer. Gun rights activists have long proposed arming teachers to combat school shootings. With school shootings on the rise and pandemic-disrupted learning taking a toll on teachers who feel increasingly burned out, public education is struggling to attract - and retain - qualified school staff, said Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, the largest teachers’ union in the country. Lee isn’t the only one questioning her future as a teacher. “I'm a young teacher and sometimes I wonder, is it going to be the best right now?” she said. Hannah Lee, a high school English teacher in Irvine, California, who started her career during the Covid-19 pandemic, said she thinks frequently about how she would barricade her door or what she would do if a shooter broke through her door lock. “Now you stand at the front door, you have the video camera look at you if you're a visitor, you get buzzed in by the secretary,” Andrews said.
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