Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius - The Atlantic

The world’s richest man has some embarrassing friends.

Sign up for Charlie’s newsletter, Galaxy Brain, here. Yesterday, the world got a look inside Elon Musk’s phone. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is currently in litigation with Twitter and trying to back out of his deal to buy the platform and take it private. As part of the discovery process related to this lawsuit, Delaware’s Court of Chancery released hundreds of text messages and emails sent to and from Musk. The 151-page redacted document is a remarkable, voyeuristic record of a few months in the life of the world’s richest (and most overexposed) man and a rare unvarnished glimpse into the overla

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