Walter Isakson set out to write about a world-changing genius in Elon Musk and found a man addicted to chaos and conspiracy.

I'm thinking it's idiotic to buy Twitter because he doesn't have a fingertip feel for social emotional networks.

The book launched a thousand hot takes,

so I sat down with Isakson to try to get past the noise.

I like the fact that people who say I'm not as tough on Musk

as I should be are always using anecdotes for my book to show why we should be tough on Musk.

Join me, Evan Ratliff, for On Musk with Walter Isickson.

Listen on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to try a shutdown ritual at the end of your work day.

So confession time here.

I've spent much of my career running my own business and even when I had an in-the-office job job I was freelancing on the side.

So my work day has never been officially done.

A home office facilitates this. I can always go back in. Even when I became a parent

and had to pick up a kid at daycare or send a sitter home, I'd often jump back on

after kid bedtime, and I'll do some work on weekends as well if there's an opportunity to do so.

The result is that I would really never turn off my laptop.

And this worked fine until it didn't.

At some point this past summer, my trustee Macbrough And this worked fine until it didn't.

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