‘Satanic mode, childish eccentric and brilliant engineer’: Elon Musk biographer reveals billionaire profile in book | amazing

American journalist and writer Walter IsaacsonThe company responsible for writing biographies of Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, and Leonardo da Vinci is preparing to release the story and controversies that revolved around the life of billionaire Elon Musk. In an interview with amazingIsaacson tells what he discovered during two years of following the businessman and what the public will find in the book that will be published this week.

“He kind of has multiple personalities. In a meeting, he tells jokes, and he’s kind and inspiring and has great ideas. Then someone says something that turns him on, and he goes into a state that one of his friends calls ‘devilish mode,’ very much.” “He is very cruel to people, and when he comes back, he hardly remembers what he did.”

The writer says that Musk, through his company Starlink, is the only person capable of establishing communications and the Internet in space that cannot be penetrated by the Russians, and that he sent more than 40,000 satellite access antennas to Ukraine.

He adds: “This year, twice as many cargo and people will be launched into space than all companies and all countries combined.”

Fascination with the letter “X”

to amazingMusk’s biographer also speaks out The controversial purchase of Twitter by a businessman. Now the social network has been renamed and is now called “X”In addition, it has undergone a series of changes in its disinformation control systems.

“I don’t think he bought it to make money,” he says. “I think he bought it out of compulsion.”

Isaacson reveals that the letter X fascinates the billionaire, as it is the unknown variable and the most important concept in mathematics. This fixation led to the message appearing in the names of their companies and even their children.

“He loved the X-Men comics. He named one of his sons Xavier. So Elon Musk is a weirdo.”

At the beginning of the work, Isaacson says that empathy is not a natural feeling for Elon Musk. The book reveals an infantile man who got his ideas about the world from video games and science fiction books. Obsessed with the idea that we are in danger, he wants to transform humanity between planets, starting with colonization on Mars. It also caused him to have many children.

The first died when it was only a few weeks old, followed by ten. He had two children with Shevon Zillis, the director of Neurolink, Musk’s company that wants to connect computers to the human brain. She says in the book that the billionaire wants “smart people to have children.”

After much time together, the author of C.V Musk is classified as a hero and villain in the same person.

“There are aspects of Elon’s personality that I don’t like, like his ‘demon mode’. But when he’s a brilliant engineer or a charismatic leader, that’s good. But he can be immature, he can be a bully, he can be cruel.” . “He could be a genius, he could make it happen,” he adds.

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