There’s a lot of material in Walter Isaacson’s new book about Elon Musk, which I’ve yet to finish because last week was my birthday, and I don’t celebrate life by finishing 688-page books about highly intelligent but unstable egomaniacs. But I have read and listened to some of the people who have read it, whose reporting I generally trust. Casey Newton cataloged 9 wild details, mostly relating to the botched Twitter acquisition. (I wish Isaacson had spent more time exploring Musk’s relationship with race, from his South African childhood to the multiple allegations of racial harassment at Tesla’s factory in Fremont.) Meanwhile, Constance Grady at Vox did an admirable job of zooming out to critique Isaacson’s focus on the individual, rather than global or systemic, impacts of Musk’s growing power and personal flaws.