I got this idea from this post:
http://forum.slowtwitch.com/...ost=6053821#p6053821

The waitbutwhy.com site is fantastic, I go down rabbit holes myself--as everyone does to varying degrees--and this site is basically long blog posts detailing an entire journey down a specific rabbit hole. The one that caught my eye--and caused me to basically forgo work for the better part of two days--is an exhaustively researched, enlightening and engrossing four-part series about Elon Musk and his various companies.

I'll link each of the four parts below, with a very high-level synopsis of the contents. I think the fourth, curiously, is the most interesting and I'll mention why at the end:
Part 1: Elon Musk, who he is at a fairly high level: his background, his companies, the authors opportunity to meet him and profile said companies, and why we should care.
http://waitbutwhy.com/...lds-raddest-man.html

Part 2: Tesla Motors, the history of automobiles, climate change and fossil fuels, electric vehicles and the auto and oil industries, and why we should care:
http://waitbutwhy.com/...hange-your-life.html

Part 3: SpaceX, civilization on Earth, aerospace engineering, space travel, colonizing Mars and eventually further reaches in the Solar System and why we should care:
http://waitbutwhy.com/...l-colonize-mars.html

Part 4: Elon Musk, how he's wired and what makes him 'special':
http://waitbutwhy.com/...ks-secret-sauce.html

Part four was fascinating to me because I never really thought about education, tribalism, the culture of accepting societal norms and dulling creativity in the ways described in the blog but it really makes a ton of sense. Can we 'rewire' ourselves and think more like scientists, not accept the world for what it is and be more successful with more creative, 'chef-like' thinking? I'm incredibly dogmatic in the way I process things, I consider myself a smart person but my software just works fairly quick relative to other people, it doesn't have that norm-challenging, AI component that questions the things I see and experience. I don't know if I'd want it to, I think the world is scary enough as it is--in my comfy job and happy relationships--but it's honestly a very interesting read. I loved all four parts, there's such depth to the information presented and I find Elon Musk and his business ventures to be fascinating even if they're not examined to this depth, but #4 was really the icing on the cake. Would love to get other peoples impressions on any of them, but mostly just wanted to make people aware of this site and the incredible depth he goes into for what are, to me, a bunch of interesting topics.