Life | Big Rocks in My Life

Athena Xiao
3 min readJul 20, 2020

I have a healthy amount of existential crisis after reading Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.

One of many impressive things about Elon Musk is his long-term thinking. Though Elon Musk only started Tesla after Zip2, PayPal, and SpaceX, he was thinking about electrical car at least as early as freshman year in college. In fact, the first thing he said to his then date, later wife, is

What do you think of electrical cars?

Elon is interested in energy since he was a student. Tesla and SolarCity are just a…

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