So this week's going to be a little different too.
If you've heard this podcast before, you know that every week I read a biography of a founder or entrepreneur,
and then I share with you the highlights
that made me think or I thought were interesting or something I learned by reading the book.
And I'm going to do the same this week, but instead of a book, it's a book-length blog post.
Tim Urban, the founder of Wait But Why, has been publishing a four-part series on Elon Musk and his companies.
And the posts are so long, he published them in Kindle format.
And in total, it's like a seven-hour read.
And today, I want to talk about the fourth part of that series
called The Cook and the Chef, Elon Musk's Secret Sauce.
So let me just jump right into this distinction that I think is really interesting,
what Tim is talking about as far as what makes Elon so special.
And he uses the metaphor of the cook versus the chef.
The difference between the way Elon thinks
and the way most people think is kind of like the difference between a cook and a chef.
The words cook and chef seem kind of like synonyms, and in the real world, they're often used interchangeably.
But in this post, when I say chef, I don't mean any ordinary chef.
I mean the trailblazing chef, the kind of chef who invents recipes.
And for our purposes, everyone else who enters a kitchen, all those who follow a recipe, is a cook.
Everything you eat, every part of every cuisine we know so well,