The writing. So clear and accurate. Great Read.

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Most of the things that Tesla envision using electricity are the reality today, except his bold ideas that required genius like him. For example giving free electricity, wireless electricity transmission.

But it might have been a great read if this was 1900.

If we had just listened to that man... he expresses his ideas with such clarity and he really thought everything through. The only negative thing I would say is that I am under the impression that many of the figures are missing or are far back so when he describes an apparatus, you don't have the image and it makes it difficult to "see" what he is explaining.

Interesting historical read.

Reading Tesla reminds me that great minds do not and usually by definition come in cookie box cut forms.

They are different by design.

So, in our world where we tolerate so much more and yet find ourselves with our drugs, medications , prescribed expectations, social media , anti social behaviour squads, block watches, and gossip shows , we actually tolerate less With so many educated by these quick draw school of social media or the self regulating media mainstream, even the fly by night schools of degree, we are often encouraged to judge and be jury too.

So world of tolerance or just social bullying. If feels far more like the latter.

In this world I wonder how many Teslas of today there are locked up or medicated down. In this world where greed is good and the "strong "aka thieving survive, how many dreamers die?

Here is to the dreamer who lived and in this and his many books, may he live evermore.

Reminds me of a young boy and his friends I read about once .

....I Solemnly swear I am up to good...... ish....

Short read. Mostly filled with opinions and ideas that do not align with my own. It almost read like a comedy more than anything.

I have never touched anything related to Nikola Telsa, and couldn't tell you much of anything about the man, so this was my first introduction to his works.

He has some interesting opinions that I do not agree with, for example... eating meat makes us barbarians and we should all be vegetarians. I felt like this was a bit out of place and super opinionated, but hey its his book.

Here are some quick bullet points:

- Sun is going to die in 6 million years.
- Say hello to the Great Freeze.
- Bacteria will live on in the cold; life will become anew.
- Humans and living creatures all connected; murder and guilt example.
- Lots of math.
- Stimulants are bad and are killing us.
- All water should be boiled, filtering alone is not enough... including ice cubes (this made me laugh).
- He basically says "cleanliness is godliness" as he focuses a quite a bit on hygiene, connects it with religion, and the importance of human energy within good hygiene. Not a bad thing. I do find it amusing how he delivers it though.
- Meat eating makes us barbarians.
- If you only eat vegetables you'll have a better physique. This made me laugh.
- Artificial food is evil.
- Crystals are living beings. Huh. Lol. Oh, you are doing the whole fire/flame comparison as opposed to what we perceive as normal life... like a house cat. Gotcha.
- Ignorance is the #1 evil.
- Organized war is the #2 evil.
- The Sun is the spring the drives all.
- Iron is bad.
- Aluminum is better (wonder if he had stocks/if this is a conflict of interest.... lol).

The way I wrote the bullet points above may come across as comical. Well, I felt the same way when I read the material.

Jokes aside, his deep dive into soil, his speculations of artificial intelligence and what he called tele-automatics (drones) were very interesting. Even his iron hate was supported by a deep dive that was quite good as well.

Mr. Telsa, that will be all for now. Thanks. I am good for probably the rest of my life and I do truly appreciate all of your ideas, thoughts, and contributions.

I enjoyed writing this review while drinking my unboiled water, filled with stimulants that are killing me, and also about to go make a barbarian style breakfast with extra meat.

Incredible book. Some memorable words from the book: "food, piece, and work".

I totally didn't expect Tesla to start the book with some contemplation on how a man should utilize his time and body, what makes you productive, and what increases your "energy" in the human capacity. I am stunned how stylish and how unordinary he is in approaching human potential energy from the physics perspective tying it to the mass, speed, and removal of retarding forces. This is yet another very rational approach to answering some of the daily questions for anyone. I am slightly surprised with the understandable philosophical shade of the writing. As I am scratching my head, I am guessing, it becomes inevitable as humans deal with global progress they raise ethical matters where every mind draws its own fine lines.

Love the vision of this guy.

Tesla is truly as close to a real life wizard possessed of superhuman abilities which he used to understand and then manipulate the world around him as you can get. The only other works thus far that I have felt the same sense of awe for are those of Einstein and Newton. Tesla’s thoughts are absolutely remarkable and his vision of the application of forces is an absolutely beautiful combination and is just so astounding. His passion for his work and the process of discovery that he pursued are of the highest esteem. He truly could not only predict the future but spoke as if his mind lived in all times, and as if it was only limited by his physical temporal and corporeal situation.

All humanities problems: solved. This book, right here.

This was a fast fun read on several dimensions.

Self help aspect-- I wish Gretchen Rubin had written an "Energy Project" book instead of an "Happiness Project" since I see depression and that energyless ennui that comes with it as the antithesis of happiness. Tesla is more interested in this topic at the macro scale of increasing the collective energy of humanity with physics! Energy = (Mass * Velocity^2)/2. It would be a stretch to say this is readily applicable to everyday life. Maybe find ways to live a healthier life to increase my lifespan and the time my mass is here on earth; pursue goals and environmental conditions that reinforce rather than undermine each other or produce a lot of friction that put a drag on my velocity; and er... find ways to increase my velocity as an human atomic unit through education in...? Speaking of velocity, he leaves a two foundation concepts problematically vague, but filling in that ambiguity for yourself is an interesting exercise. (i.e. What "direction" are we trying to impel humanity? Without knowing that, how do we determine what forces to consider "negative?" What exactly is human "velocity?" What rubric do we use to determine if the children are higher/lower/same velocity as their parents and thus desirable/undesirable to add to human mass?) I found myself concluding that some heterogeneity of beliefs, values, goals even if wasteful in moving humanity forcefully in a singular direction sets us up to be able to collectively adapt to changes in our environment and the pressures those changes exert on our fitness... kinda like humans having resilience through many different blood types and immune system combinations.

Victoriana-- I love the broad background this era draws on for analogies, the optimism to believe all problems are imminently solvable, and the understatement with which they convey their ideas. "...when a misfortune befell me in the burning of my laboratory, which crippled my labors and delayed me." (!) "There is, of course, a popular prejudice against using an electrical pressure of millions of volts, which may cause sparks to fly at distances of hundreds of feet..." (!!)

History of technological thought-- how rad would it be to have a 15 min Youtube rejoinder for each of Tesla's speculative technology chapters. How prescient were his speculations? What things did he not anticipate? How did the field evolve post 1900? He's speculating about communicating and terra forming planets before we even had much in the way of air travel. Considering the possibilities of wireless communication and power conveyance while much of his world is still running on coal or possibly gas lighting. Contemplating the use of sonar types of devices to detect "an iceberg or other object at sea" 12 years before the mishap with the Titanic.