Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk

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Mike Pesca

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4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Faiz Siddiqui discusses Hubris Maximus his sharp chronicle of Elon Musk’s maximalist vision, self-driving delusions, and the rule-breaking impulses that fuel both triumph and tragedy. Plus we hear a tart exchange in the White House briefing room about Amazon’s decision to itemize tariff costs. Plus, its been 100 days. At least 98 could have been a lot better. ⁠⁠⁠Join The Gist Team⁠⁠⁠ Produced by Corey WaraEmail us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠To advertise on the show, contact ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠ or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://advertising.libsyn.com/TheGist⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to The Gist: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to The Gist Instagram Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠GIST INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow The Gist List at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pesca⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:05.0	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
0:11.0	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:13.0	Daddy!
0:14.0	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
0:23.2	Now that's term time working.
0:24.6	Offered at Amazon.
0:26.9	Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:29.1	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
0:29.9	Conditions apply.
0:32.0	Hi, it's Mike with a major announcement.
0:33.5	It is not about the gist.
0:36.5	It is about something called the gist list.
0:42.4	So let me tell you, every day I construct the show by reading and listening and imbibing a tremendous amount of information.
0:46.0	A lot of it doesn't make it onto the show, of course.
0:47.2	So what do we do with that?
0:51.0	What do we do with the effluvia, the Jetsam, the Sods, but also the odds?
0:53.0	Enter the GIST list.
0:56.9	Every day on Substack, I will be compiling the most interesting, important, maybe unfairly ignored stories that I look at and say there's something
1:02.5	there. You know, we must nurture that which is interesting in this world. Some of these stories
1:07.6	do end up as segments. They all start off as ideas.
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