A look inside Elon Musk’s strange world – and what he thinks of himself

The danger with writing about a person as mercurial as Elon Musk is that by the time your book comes out, they will have done something outrageous that you couldn’t include. For instance, Walter Isaacson’s approved biography of the tech billionaire is published today, yet only last week, Musk accused the Anti-Defamation League, the American non-governmental organisation that identifies and criticises anti-Semitism, of causing a fall in Twitter’s advertising revenue. Most people, by contrast, att