There are a few ways to think about Elon Musk’s announcement this week that he’s stepping back from DOGE. The first is that he’s leaving a job he officially doesn’t have. The second is that he’s returning to a job (Tesla CEO) that he’s supposedly been doing this whole time. The third, and perhaps most interesting, is that none of this actually makes any sense at all.
Day: April 26, 2025
“He Was Forging His Own Hero’s Journey When He Was Tragically Killed in Eastern Europe”
How the son of a CIA deputy director set out to backpack around the world and to save the planet — but ended up in the Russian army and died in the war in Ukraine
“He Was Forging His Own Hero’s Journey When He Was Tragically Killed in Eastern Europe” (archived)