I have now started E. Michael Jones's 'The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit'. I recently finished The Jewish People and Jesus Christ by Jacob Jocz, who is a Messianic Christian. I learned a lot about the early Jewish Christian interactions with Jews in the early days of Christianity. Namely, I didn't realize the Jews had a book that mocked the life of Jesus, so deeply has that been hidden. It helped me better understand how Jews and Christians basically can't get along, the Jews will always see Christians as an enemy that threatens their survival.
But I wanted to mention the Walter Isaacson 'Elon Musk' biography that recently came out. I felt the quality of Walter's writing is declining, in comparison to his other biographies. The chapters were short, Walter's biases were highly evident, particularly in the later Twitter chapters, and it seemed to me that he probably had to bite his tongue a lot being around Elon, Elon being the way he is. Overall, the book left me feeling tired and depressed. Elon's life is not at all enviable, neither is his version of hardcore work. The way he treats people is questionable. I get where he comes from and why he can be harsh, but he didn't seem so harsh to me as Walter describes, it's more the drama of instant hirings and firings and demanding long hours. I would lose it too if I was running a company and engineers kept telling me this and that were impossible and you find out the reasons were bogus or lazy. I suspect a lot of people simply need permission to make a change, too afraid to do so on their own and the change be a problem. I did like his method of questioning the root cause of why a decision was made, this has actually helped me smell past the bovine in my own life.
Wonder if anyone else has read Elon's biography and what they thought?
