The state looks for pretexts. Reducing pretexts is a way to make it harder for them. That doesn’t mean those victimized by the state deserved it or something, just that the state is looking for excuses and staying in the game sometimes means not giving it to them

I thought his writing on Jobs was pretty biting at the time. Definitely didn't make him seem like the best person professionally or personally.

However, if Isaacson's giving Musk more leeway to influence his own biography (for any reason) without verifying those accounts then that's unfortunate.