The book of Elon
A distillation of Elon Musk's ideas curated by Eric Jorgenson: first principles thinking, the five-step algorithm for optimizing any process, frontline leadership, and the master plan that took him from Zip2 to SpaceX. More than a biography, it's an engineering manual for life — where success is measured by how much useful stuff you deliver to the world.
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Who it is for
For entrepreneurs, engineers, and anyone who feels the world could move faster. If you want to trade reasoning by analogy for radical thinking, learn to delete the unnecessary before optimizing, and build projects driven by a mission bigger than profit, this microbook hands you the playbook.
About the Author
Eric Jorgenson is a product strategist at a private American company called Zaarly which is focused on developing a proximity-based, real-time, buyer-powered market platform. He has been writing the business blog Evergreen since 2014. He is also a creator and editor of ‘’The Almanack of Naval Ravikant.’’
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