Elon Musk reveals trillion dollar algorithm that explains everything he does

Elon Musk has never written a book, but if he did he might call it The Art of the Algorithm. “I was absolutely furious with Elon and didn’t speak with him,” Kimball Musk recalled to Isaacson. “I felt like I lost my brother… At that point I was like, ‘I’m done with you.’” You also find out that Musk takes an almost unnerving amount of design inspiration from toy cars, robots and Lego – and that some Tesla engineers were so upset with the design of the company’s Cybertruck that they secretly crafted alternative options. But perhaps the most revelatory moment of the 615-page book is when Musk outlines what he calls his “algorithm”.It comprises five key steps that Musk repeats “to an annoying degree” to those around him. He transforms the Silicon Valley adage of ‘move fast and break things’ to ‘move maniacally and delete things’ – all for seemingly impossible targets like making humans multiplanetary through SpaceX, preventing climate change through the transition towards electric vehicles with Tesla, solving traffic through his tunnel-digging venture The Boring Company, staving off the existential threat posed by artificial intelligence through his brain chip startup Neuralink, and creating an “everything app” that connects the world through X.