I Read Elon Musk’s 69 Rules for Success | The Book of Elon Book Review

I read The Book of Elon by Eric Jorgenson, a collection of Elon Musk’s most useful ideas on purpose, engineering, business, hiring, intensity and problem-solving, presented largely through Musk’s own words.

Rather than another Elon Musk biography, this book attempts to distil his operating system: how he thinks, why he works with such extreme intensity and which principles have shaped companies including Tesla and SpaceX.

But does it offer anything genuinely new?

00:00 What is The Book of Elon?

00:28 How I received the book

01:03 This is not an Elon Musk biography

01:48 Three million words distilled

02:24 More than 1,000 source references

03:10 The 69 Core Musk Methods

03:35 How the book is designed

03:56 My background with Elon Musk

04:42 Why so much of it felt familiar