John SiracusaOct 1, 2023

“We are dealing with not one but two unreliable narrators: Musk and Isaacson himself.”

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-biography-musk-review

How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk is a strangely incurious book. Its shallow reporting and bizarre skew left me with more questions than I had before I read it.

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Show threadJohn SiracusaOct 1, 2023
To everyone who replied to my post about Isaacson’s terrible Elon Musk biography to tell me that his Steve Jobs biography was also bad: I agree. Here’s what I had to say about it at the time: https://hypercritical.fireside.fm/42
42: The Wrong Guy

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs (Part 1).

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@siracusa Just got to the bit where you talk about Isaacson not being worried that he’ll forever be linked to Steve Jobs because “it’s only one of many biographies I’ve written”. 😬😬😬

Talk about being correct for all of the wrong reasons.

Oct 2, 2023 at 11:06pmWeb