What makes Elon Musk tick? Insights from the biography by Walter Isaacson

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• Books
• Elon Musk
• Walter Isaacson

July 25, 2022: Climate propaganda; The trouble with education’s ‘success formula’; Age of surveillance

• Read Time : 4 mins

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• education
• Walter Isaacson
• Climate propaganda
• Marc Andreessen
• FF Insights
• Avijit Pathak
• Mosaic browser
• Al Gore
• Eric Bina

May 9, 2022: The danger of a single story; The trouble with Congress; Quality vs. price

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• Steve Jobs
• Walter Isaacson
• Molly Worthen
• FF Insights
• Congress party
• Naval Ravikant
• Walt Disney
• MBA education

February 25, 2022: Fukuyama on Putin; Resume virtues versus eulogy virtues; Be creative

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• Francis Fukuyama
• Vladimir Putin
• Ukraine
• Walter Isaacson
• Russia
• genetic engineering
• FF Insights
• free choice
• Resume virtues vs eulogy virtues

October 21, 2021: Steve Jobs; The power of owning one’s mistakes; Clear instructions

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• Steve Jobs
• D Shivakumar
• Walter Isaacson
• Colin Powell
• Global supply crunch

August 23, 2021: What’s your leadership style; Monitoring the dispersed; Be firm

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• DNA vaccine
• monitoring employees
• Walter Isaacson
• Leadership
• Aparajita Bhattacharyya

Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna's work on gene editing; the courage to stand up for what's right; which habits will stay, which will change; adaptive leadership; and giving your career a different direction

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• Jan Hall
• Keith Leslie
• Walter Isaacson
• Jennifer Doudna
• Katy Milkman
• Books
• Jon Stokes
• Jim Detert

April 8, 2021: How James Watson, a budding ornithologist, went on to make landmark breakthroughs in genetics; What the media won’t tell you; How the Chinese media works; When connectivity is poor

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• history of gene editing
• Media and entertainment reset
• Chinese media
• Maria Repnikova
• Walter Isaacson
• James Watson

April 1, 2021: Unintended consequences of tree planting; The purpose of technology; Avoid men, follow women

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• tree planting programmes
• Creativity
• the last supper
• Balaji Srinivasan
• Technology
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Walter Isaacson

March 1, 2021: Walter Isaacson on passionate curiosity; Why local experience matters; France’s repairability index; How to measure our lives

• Read Time : 3 mins

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• Systems Thinking
• Steve Jobs
• Albert Einstein
• Curiosity
• Walter Isaacson
• Benjamin Franklin
• France’s repairability index
• Jeff Bezos
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Ada Lovelace
• Adam Grant