Elon Musk

Decent biography of an egomaniac visionary (aren't they all?). Hearing all about Musk's projects is fascinating, especially since his drive comes from a quest for a better future (on earth or elsewhere). Hearing about how he runs his big companies as if they are fresh startups (when it comes to work hours, benefits, attitude) is first entertaining and then a bit scary and disappointing. On one hand he seems amazing at discovering talent, on the other hand he burns through that talent at an exhausting rate.

Some of the economical examples didn't quite hit home. As the text seems to praise Musk for pushing his engineers to develop products at half the price of off-the-shelf products, but then fails to consider the extra development time in the actual value equation. I imagine if you're building 1 of each for every rocket, your total count won't be high enough to make up for development time.