Isaacson isn’t an objective biographer. He needs access to continue pumping out more work, and he won’t get access if he doesn’t show his subject in a positive

Isaacson isn’t an objective biographer. He needs access to continue pumping out more work, and he won’t get access if he doesn’t show his subject in a positive light. I don’t doubt these anecdotes that show the guy’s intuition was correct in a few cases. I’d be interested to know when it was wrong. For example, he had an intuition that his engineers could build full self driving in 12 months 10 years ago. And every 12 months he’d show up promising that it would be ready for real for real in 12 months. Nah bro, he was just lying to pump up the stock price. Yeah, maybe. Or his intuition was just wrong. He’s exceptionally good at taking credit for work done by others. SpaceX is the classic example, but him playing Path of Exile claiming to have reached the maximum level possible when actually he was taking credit for someone else playing on his behalf is another good example.