Elon Musk


Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3)
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsZero to One by Peter ThielThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienSuperintelligence by Nick BostromThe Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
Elon Musk Book Recommendations
18 books — 33 voters
The Art of Startup Fundraising by Alejandro CremadesZero to One by Peter ThielThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienConsider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
Books that Elon Musk has read
32 books — 31 voters

Summer Deception by John  MarinoThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsBenjamin Franklin by Walter IsaacsonEinstein by Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk's Book recommendations
15 books — 2 voters
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariThe Information by James GleickThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFoundation by Isaac Asimov
Bookicious
102 books — 4 voters

Tiisetso Maloma
Overall, the success of SpaceX serves as an example of how re-imagining manufacturing and applying new materials and proprietary innovations can lead to significant cost reductions and novel innovations. It is important to always remain on the lookout for new ideas and improvements and to have a technically capable team in place to make them a reality.
Tiisetso Maloma, Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration

Tiisetso Maloma
A great frame inferred to encapsulate Musk’s hiring philosophy is the ‘two-hands test’. It means the candidate must have first-hand experience and a hands-on expertise in testing. Passing the two-hands test proves you have skin in the game.
Tiisetso Maloma, Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration

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