Ten books recommended by Elon Musk

Elon Musk, beloved by a few, criticized others. We will not talk about the second and really the first, but we will share five books recommended by Elon Musk. Their recommendations are different and vary from books on business and technology, due to biographies of outstanding characters and, of course, science fiction. Maybe not everyone is available in Spanish, and you probably have problems obtaining several of them in physical format, but there are always options in digital mode, so enjoy the recommendations of Mr. Mask.

Zero to one: notes on startups or how to build the futurePeter Til

This Best-seller from New York Times He offers ideas about how to create value in the modern world. The author is Peter Til, who founded PayPal with Elon Musk several years ago.

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SuperintentinTelling: ways, danger, strategies, nickname Bostr

The philosopher Nick Bostrom offers one of the obligatory readings about the risks of artificial intelligence. Sam Altman, President of Openai, describes him as one of the best works on this issue.

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Structures: or why things don’t fall, je gordon

E. Gordon offers an extremely friendly approach to engineering concepts that everyone could understand. According to the publication Business -InterderThis is one of the books that most inspired Elon Musk.

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Hitchhiking guide for the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Mask said The fact that this book was key in his interest in space, which invariably forced him to establish SpaceX, today the starting point for the cosmic colonization of the 21st century. Well, then Hitchhiker management of the galaxy It is this book that can reveal or envy this curiosity.

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Ignition!, John D. Clark

John Duri Clark, a scientist and author of science fiction, offers an informal story about the development of missiles.

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Fund trilogy, Isaac Asimov

Ashimov science fiction. From here came the famous “Three Laws of Robotics”, which, one way or another, served as a kind of ethical guidance for the development of smart humanoid machines. But in FoundationA series of stories published by Asimov between 1940 and 1950.

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Moon – Hard mistress, Robert A. Khinlein

The moon is a harsh mistress, a political novel created in the lunar colony, is considered the best work of Robert A. Khinlein, who received several Hugo prizes, the literature “Oscar of science fiction”.

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Stranger on strange land, Robert A. Khinlein

Valentina Michael Smith, a man brought up by the Martians, who has never met his own appearance, goes to the ground to find out what a person is.

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Howard Hugues: his life and madness, Donald L. Barlett

AviatorThe famous film by Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese is based on this biographical work.

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Einstein: His life and the Universe, Walter Isaacon

Described as the final biography of Einstein, Walter Isaacon offers an exhaustive work that the author of the theory of relativity is one of the most striking minds of the last century.

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