Jill: I think people are pretty aware that people like musk pasos made an extraordinary amount of money during the pendemic. She says there's something just unsavoury at a moment of such global suffering. We mentiond jeff bezos a few times to day, if you want to learn a little more about the fantasies that drive him down. Load the next big idea and check out the book by journalist bradstone, made for his best seller amazon unbound.
When it comes to Elon Musk, it can be hard to separate the man from the myth. But in her new podcast, “The Evening Rocket,” Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore manages to see through Musk’s mystique, explain his worldview, and decipher his visions of the future by going back to the sci-fi stories he grew up on — stories, Lepore says, that Musk sometimes misread.