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We're sending you back to the future! Welcome everybody to ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors

unofficial podcast.

My name's Ryan McCaffrey.

I am pleased to be joining you here on November 15, 2015

for episode 16 of this humble little Tesla podcast.

Plenty going on this week, at least up front,

because I wanted to talk about a particular article to start with. It's not Tesla News per se, but of course

our friend Elon Musk is almost always in the news, but a piece I read on him this week is one of the best pieces of anything I've read in months if not years

If you have not read it boy. I just cannot encourage you enough to take the time to do it.

It's called, the piece is called The Cook and the Chef,

and it's by Tim Urban, who runs a blog slash, I don't even know what you quite call it blog is is probably not

That's not giving him enough credit

But the site is wait but why dot com and on there Tim does a series of sort of insightful deep

dives into various things that interest him and he's done a this is the last in a four-piece series on Tesla

and on Elon. A little, there's a bit on SpaceX in there too, sort of just the Elon

verse, if you will. And this, boy, the other three pieces,

I've read them all, and they're excellent.

But boy, this last one just,

it really knocked me back on my heels in the very very best of ways. It's funny, it's smart, it's well researched, and I have to admit it legitimately caused me to think about how I could apply Tim's

conclusion to my own life and not a lot of I mean I'm a writer by trade I

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