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John Siracusa | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 “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
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anxious_relative | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @a6ff0b2b I thought of your takedown as soon as I read this title - you’ve only been more vindicated with time!
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56648215 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @a6ff0b2b current seemingly working link to "The Wrong Guy".

https://hypercritical.fireside.fm/42
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charlesesmith | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @a6ff0b2b Every review I've read about this seems to indicate that he doubled down on everything that sucked about the Jobs book.
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dc3123a2 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @a6ff0b2b Hypercritcal, episode 101: No, seriously, the wrong guy.
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e9a6664d | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @a6ff0b2b his biography of Steve Jobs was such a wasted opportunity. Just so mediocre. “Becoming Steve Jobs” by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli was way better.
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John Siracusa | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 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
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75992ee3 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @a6ff0b2b it’s amazing that Elon told him that SpaceX was the only company that can launch unhackable satellites and Isaacson seemingly took it at face value and did no work to verify it at all.