Elon Musk is bringing Silicon Valley’s ‘ask for forgiveness, not permission’ playbook to politics

A letter from the Department of Justice seems to have put Musk’s election ‘lottery’ on hold.

Speaking to his biographer Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk said of his approach to authority: “I guess I’ve always wanted to push my chips back on the table or play the next level of the game.” Isaacson later quotes Musk as saying, “I’ve got a bad habit of biting off more than I can chew.”