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musk is genuinely not very bright and it's never been subtle, which makes the 15+ year tech press effort to mythologize him all the more embarrassing

The Isaacson biography also played a key role in lionizing Musk's intellect among more intelligent people. I dinged a friendship when I argued that Musk is a dunce, not knowing that she read the Isaacson biography twice and was entranced by how visionary Musk was.