A lot of reporters want to talk about Elon and Twitter. Instead of responding to them, I'll just post something here and see if they can find it. It will be good practice for them in using Mastodon.
I think it will be a relief to Elon to go back to focusing on cars and rockets. Those are arguably more important problems anyway. And he could still do good things for Twitter too, if he hires the right CEO.
did you find it?š
Do yourself a favour and look at #JohnMastodon #JoanMastodon
I skimmed but I don't feel like I "get it", would you mind explaining the thought behind the tag(s)?
Ah, gotcha, thanks!
@paulg Whom do you think would he appoint as the new CEO? Lex, Sriram or David?
My bet is probably Sriram Krishnan.
@saipatil @paulg some of the worst picks possible. They'll do no better than previous Twitter management.
It's basically impossible to find a great CEO for Twitter because the best candidates will realize, like Jack Dorsey did, that only correct thing to do would be to diminish the service by decentralizing it (i.e. making it a Mastadon/Bluesky/whatever server), which is what Jack wanted to do.
So anyone willing to *grow* Twitter would be 1. stupid or 2. unprincipled or 3. both.
@erikth2355 @paulg it is always about power. Money gives you power. You basically can tell people to do stuff for you in exchange for $. But once you have unlimited $ you want power on something else. Like information. Once you have this you want the power to send people to fight for you. Politics and position of a dictator gives you that. Etc.
People with unlimited money can have all the women and lay on the beaches till the end of their days. Yet very seldom they do that.
@paulg Musk should focus 100% on space. Twitter is distractions, almost every major car got electric model so Tesla is not as important as it used to be.
Let's help Musk by making conscious customer choices.
He's not a competent anything. He did not engineer the cars or rockets and his management is atrocious. They succeed in spite of him, not because of.
@paulg if Elon Musk causes decentralized social media to reach critical mass, even through his own blundering, he'll have made yet another great contribution to humanity and I'll sincerely thank him for it.
If it costs him $45 billion of the value he captured from his previous great contributions, that doesn't seem so bad in the grand scheme of things. The money went to a good cause and he'll be okay.
The flavor of David Brooks is way too strong here.
Musk is a dick. Heās a bigot. Heās an authoritarian. Heās been a complete ass to the people employed by Tesla and SpaceX ā who are the ones doing the wonderful things.
Leave him in Qatar, without access to the internet.
@paulg I havenāt check nor use SNS made by Mr D. Trump but I must say since Musk took over Twitter, Twitter is basically depend on how Me CEO feels and think rather possibility of new level of communication. I was pretty disappointed.
Too much emotion and one person opinionā¦ those need to advance and push new technologies but not āonā communication and discussion platforms, in my opinion.
@paulg After seeing his management "style" at Twitter, I wouldn't be surprised if he's seen as a liability at SpaceX and Tesla.
Now I wonder if both companies are filled to the brim with burned out engineers who, had they been managed properly, could have boosted the efficiency and output of both companies by at least 200%?
Pushing long hours, retaliating for perceived "offenses", and generally acting like a manchild does not make for a good leader.
One would think he would beta test a variety of management styles with things like 4 day workweeks, remote work, etc. and come up with something futuristic and innovative. Instead he seems to have taken up the playbook of ignorant 19th century factory owners.
My questions are - what is the turnover at both companies? What percentate of new hires are recent grads? How long do they last? Where do they go next? What have they shared about their work experience?
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