enough, but did Zuckerberg need to resort to gory avian encounters or indulge Americas peculiar fascination with guns?
Strange behavior, but there's always the Elon Musk defense. "I reinvented electric cars and I'm sending people to Mars on a rocket ship. Did you think I was going to be a chill, normal dude?" asks Elon. As the founder of a business with a value that would approach the GDP of Scandinavia, Zuckerberg might reasonably have the same query. But it's an oily slope when we readily ac-cept, in our "idolatry of innovators,* that erratic behavior is a necessary trait of outliers. Brian Chesky, founder of Airbnb, is a muscular counterexample. Later I would spend several hours one-on-one with Brian, and I found him chill and-other than intimidating biceps-refreshingly normal.
Money was tight when my father was an academic. Eating animal protein-usually mutton; chicken was more expensive— was a luxury rarely enjoyed more than once a week. Things changed after he became a thriving private physician, but I still remember those early days. It affected my parents more than it did me, that devastating helplessness of denying your children, but their frustration made me determined to never put myself in that position.