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

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• Elon Musk
• Walter Isaacson
• Books

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
• Maria Repnikova
• Chinese media
• Walter Isaacson
• James Watson

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

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

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