https://summaryshelf.app/authors/ashlee-vance/Recent content in Ashlee Vance on SummaryShelfHugoen-usWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/elon-musk/Tue, 16 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/elon-musk/<p>Elon Musk builds companies by taking an implausible mission — getting humanity to Mars, getting transport off fossil fuels — and treating it as a literal deadline that reality has no right to negotiate. Ashlee Vance&rsquo;s biography argues that this single move explains everything else: the rockets that land themselves and the trail of ruined marriages, discarded assistants, and burned-out engineers behind them. Musk absorbs failure and expense that would stop anyone else because, to him, the schedule is not optional.</p>