Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Elon Musk Biography Review

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Tesla, and Elon Musk, are no strangers to the Slope of Hope. I first wrote about Tesla over a decade ago in this post, in which I praised my new Model S (170,500 miles ago………) Just to prove I’m not an always-negative sourpuss, the last sentence I wrote in that lengthy review was “Elon has another winner on his hands.”, and God knows that was the case.

I have composed many dozens of posts about Elon and Tesla in the years since, and my own family’s financial well-being is partly tied to the man now. Thus, I was very excited to see famed biographer Walter Isaacson was coming out with his Elon Musk biography, which I pre-ordered months ago. I’ve been reading it every night since it arrived a week ago, and I have some things to say about it.

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Journey Back to the 1950s

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A couple of weeks ago, I decided to crack open a history book I hadn’t read in years: David Halberstam’s The Fifties, which – – obviously – – is about America in the decade of the 1950s. I didn’t grow up back then. That was the era of my parents as young adults and new parents. Yet I’ve always had a fascination of this era, since it represented America at the height of its power and true prosperity. Let’s just say that the thriving economy of the 1950s was actually based on innovation, growth, and productivity, as opposed to horseshit Federal Reserve fakery, which defines the repulsive era in which we presently reside. The book is nothing short of sensational, and I urge you to buy it and read it.

As a sad side note, Mr. Halberstam was killed sixteen years ago only one mile from my house in a car accident. The driver who plowed into him got handed five days of community service as punishment, largely due to the kindness of Halberstam’s family, who didn’t seek a long sentence. What a shameful loss. Halberstam was a great historian and writer, and we are fortunate to be able to enjoy the fruits of his labor.