ELON MUSK IS AN ENIGMA. One would not be wrong to construe this as a clichéd sentence. But then, one way to understand a cliché is to see it as a truth that is tired of repeating itself. Walter Isaacson’s bombshell biography of Musk is precisely this: a deeply reported book that lays bare the facts of Musk’s life. But it is also a work haunted by questions.
From the beginning, we are not shown a man we know today: the mercurial Co-founder of Tesla, or the man who, by a snap of his