Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla by Marc Seifer

2020, book 5: “Have you ever read the book of Job? If you put my mind in place of his body, you will find my sufferings accurately described. I have put all the money I could scrape together into this plant, and with $50,000 it is completed.” — Nikola Tesla

Finished on January 24, 2020

I saw this book as one of the available audiobooks on sale and thought that Tesla would be someone I would particularly enjoy learning a lot more about. Wow, was he ever interesting. This book was great in the way that it was organized. The chapters were split up by time period so most of it was chronological yet, the author did a great job interweaving everything together and emphasizing the cause and effect of various decisions that Tesla made.

Intense activity for 15 years. Wow. This man had a work ethic and a passion that I have NEVER seen up close. There are not many people who can work consistently and repeatedly for years and years and years. He produced AC units how rapidly? As rapidly as they could be constructed. Crazy crazy. The man just worked and he got the job done over and over and over again. From this part of…