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Walter Isaacson

New Orleans

Contributor at Freelance

Author of bios of Elon Musk, Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Ben Franklin, Einstein, Steve Jobs. Professor @Tulane. Formerly @Time, @CNN, & @Aspeninstitute

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  • 2 months ago | lrb.co.uk | Kate Conger |Ryan Mac |Walter Isaacson |Deborah Friedell

    Elon Musk​ bought Twitter because he loved it. He loved tweeting poop emojis at dawn; he loved tweeting masturbation jokes at dusk. He loved that he had more Twitter followers than almost anyone else, though it galled that Barack Obama and Justin Bieber had more. While other celebrity social media accounts were often so sanitised that they smelled of chlorine – ‘Happy Tuesday everybody! Stay positive!’ – at least no one could claim that @elonmusk had ever been focus-grouped.

  • 2 months ago | kirkusreviews.com | Dalton Conley |Omar El Akkad |Walter Isaacson

    The latest on nature versus nurture may unsettle readers at the extremes but will entertain them all. Figuring out who we are—and who we will become. Belief in the superiority of people like you can be deeply satisfying. Nazism gave that a bad reputation, but it revived with the 1994 bestseller The Bell Curve, whose authors maintained that people achieve if they inherit abilities that nonachievers and minorities lack.

  • 2 months ago | kathmandupost.com | Walter Isaacson |Michael Siddhi

    At the D8 Conference, hosted by The Wall Street Journal in June 2010, Steve Jobs described how Apple’s organisational structure operated like a startup despite being one of the largest companies in the world. This interview marked one of his last major public appearances before his demise.

  • 2 months ago | kirkusreviews.com | Thor Hanson |Amy Tan |Walter Isaacson

    Far from the first natural history of the backyard, but a good one. Exploring the wild world behind his house. Conservation biologist Hanson lives in the Pacific Northwest, so most of his property is a temperate rain forest, but its rich biome serves him well.

  • 2 months ago | kirkusreviews.com | Jamieson Webster |Walter Isaacson |Daniel Kahneman

    Alternately admiring and critical, unvarnished, and a closely detailed account of a troubled innovator. A warts-and-all portrait of the famed techno-entrepreneur—and the warts are nearly beyond counting. To call Elon Musk (b. 1971) “mercurial” is to undervalue the term; to call him a genius is incorrect. Instead, Musk has a gift for leveraging the genius of others in order to make things work.

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28 May 25

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27 May 25

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25 May 25

Very interesting.

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I discuss the urgent crisis from the loss of federal support of science in the US and recent clinical gene editing breakthroughs with @WalterIsaacson & @amanpour on @AmanpourCoPBS, airing on @PBS tonight at 11 pm ET, and on @cnni earlier today. Pls share! https://t.co/cyVZpAwJiq