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Charles Steel – The Curious Mind of Elon Musk

    9 Ways He Thinks Differently

    The Strategy Skills Podcast | 25 February 2026 | 0h 52m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify

    Interview with Charles Steel about his book The Curious Mind of Elon Musk: 9 Ways He Thinks Differently. Explains Elon Musk’s unique philosophy of curiosity aimed at advancing human consciousness. Tesla, SpaceX, and X.AI – are vehicles for this mission, driven by first principles thinking and a culture of relentless innovation to find better questions about the universe. Advocates balancing innate curiosity with hard work, embracing productive struggle, and understanding one’s risk tolerance for personal and professional fulfilment.

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    Eric Zwick – The Everywhere Millionaire

      Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There

      Capitalisn’t | 17 September 2026 | 0h 52m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify

      Interview with Eric Zwick about his book The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There, co-authored with Owen Zidar. Argues the American rich are far more numerous, dispersed, and ordinary, comprising ‘main street millionaires’ – owners of private businesses with $5–100 million in net worth, not just media-covered billionaires. Wealth is often accumulated through everyday businesses – like car dealerships or dental practices – benefiting from restrictive practices, anti-trust failures, and political influence in tax policy and local regulations. Suggests room for upward mobility through entrepreneurship, whilst highlighting significant policy problems including tax loopholes and local market power that enable wealth concentration.

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      Quinn Slobodian – Muskism

        A Guide for the Perplexed

        Capitalisn’t | 7 May 2026 | 0h 53m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
        Interview with Quinn Slobodian about his book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. Defines Muskism as a state-symbiosis in which private firms instrumentalise government for profit rather than seeking its elimination, leverage infrastructure as power through vertical integration, and bypass democratic constraints with an engineering mindset that treats social contracts as optimisation problems. Unlike Fordism’s promise of social peace, Muskism sells security and sovereignty through technology amidst perceived global threats. Argues that Musk uses outsized promises to maintain financial dominance and vassalize state functions.

        Eric Jorgenson – The Book of Elon

          David Senra | 24 March 2026 | 1h 50m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
          Interview with Eric Jorgenson about his book The Book of Elon: A Guide to Purpose and Success. Explores the core principles behind Elon Musk’s success building revolutionary companies like SpaceX and Tesla. Explains “the algorithm”: a five-step process prioritising questioning requirements, deleting unnecessary parts, and simplifying before ever accelerating or automating. Emphasises Musk’s mission-driven perseverance, knowing business from A to Z, and utilising physics-first thinking to challenge industry norms. By valuing speed and vertical integration, he drives down costs to achieve breakthroughs. Celebrates manufacturing as the true engine of human progress.

          See also the Infinite Loops episode with Eric Jorgenson about his earlier book The Almanack of Naval Ravikant.

          Elon Musk: Walter Isaacson on the World’s Most Polarizing Person

            The Next Big Idea | 14 September 2023 | 1h 07m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
            Interview with Walter Isaacson about his book Elon Musk. Discusses Elon Musk’s formative experiences; the pluses and minuses of his personality; his role with eBay, Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, artificial intelligence, the war in Ukraine, and more.

            Ronan Farrow on the Rule of Elon Musk

              The Political Scene | The New Yorker | 23 August 2023 | 0h 32m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
              Interview with Ronan Farrow about his New Yorker article Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule. Discusses how Musk has become an essential yet unofficial part of American governance, holding the keys to the green transition, the space race, and even the war in Ukraine. The reason for this, Farrow explains, is not Musk’s outrageous personality; it’s the structures of neoliberal capitalism that allowed a person like Musk to ascend.

              For the record, I think Musk deserves more appreciation than criticism.

              What’s on Elon Musk’s Mind?

                The TED Interview | 15 April 2022 | 1h 09m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
                Interview with Elon Musk discussing what it will take to build a future worth being excited about. Covers free speech and Twitter, energy for a climate-stable future, battery production, self-driving cars, Tesla’s intelligent humanoid robot Optimus, SpaceX’s Starship, and Neuralink’s brain-machine interfaces.