Matthew Calmes

I was enthralled by this book. As I read it, I couldn't help but see it as a chilling premenition of DOGE in 2025. The mass firings of decent people for "cause", for example. This books reveals and confirms my suspicions about Musk. A man who is certainly very intelligent in engineering concepts, but a man who like the rest of us is still human, despite his self-annointed tech-god status. The book describes a man who demands data, but ignores the factual realities one should obviously derive from said data. He conducts himself cruelly, fixated on his own petty emotional needs. A petulant child-prince man baby, who for all of his preaching about free speech, choses again and again to only set free those that speak from his script. Beyond that, I feel it is a case study in the dangers of social media in general. Musk is an addict who loved his drug (Twitter) so much that he decided to buy the opium farm (for a ridiculous 44 Billion dollars) and get high on his own supply. Not to mention the fact that he decided to burn the fields and kill (fire) half his farmers in an attempt to make his drug "better". After reading this, I see Musk as not just a fool, but a troubled and unwell man. A malignant narcissist, not interested in the betterment of human kind, but rather the constant affirmation from all human kind that he is somehow better than all of us.