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This is good news for nerds who believe tech can be used for more than developing advertising platforms. Everyone anywhere near Elon should do one thing: encou

This is good news for nerds who believe tech can be used for more than developing advertising platforms. Everyone anywhere near Elon should do one thing: encourage him to get the hell off Twitter. Social media is bad for everyone, but it seems worse for certain personality types. Please Elon, quit twitter. Even for a year.

nostrebored 8y ago
Twitter seems more like a symptom than a root cause here.
- idrios 8y ago
  It's a facilitator of bad habits. Telling him to leave Twitter is like telling an alcoholic to get the alcohol out of his house. In either case it's a good first step. But more directly, everyone makes mistakes and we make more rash decisions when we're stressed. At least without Twitter, his spurts of irrationality from being overwhelmed can be kept private and not affect his business.
- jrumbut 8y ago
  I once heard that root causes are almost never fixable, so pretty often the best that can be done is a few levels up. The root cause of anything is probably something like mortality, human frailty, the laws of physics. We are very far from fixing any of those. Twitter on the other hand can be changed, and probably some people on this very site work at Twitter and can (and should!) make socially responsible changes. It's not the root cause of anything but it has plenty of influence.
  - randomsearch 8y ago
    This is an incredible insight. Thank you so much for sharing it.
  - silentguy 8y ago
    > I once heard that root causes are almost never fixable I think we are playing with the definition of root cause here.
jdck1326 8y ago
>social media is bad for everyone disagree
- simonh 8y ago
  Someone is wrong on the Internet. Quick, attack!
mcdevilkiller 8y ago
He got the boring company where it is right now because of Twitter.
- randomsearch 8y ago
  Yes, I know. And some other things happened due to Twitter. But you don't do things just because they have _some_ upsides; you've got to take the balance. And I think it's been a clear net negative - e.g. potentially losing control of Tesla.
fjsolwmv 8y ago
You don't think Twitter was critical in building Musk's brand and investor interest?

nostrebored 8y ago

Twitter seems more like a symptom than a root cause here.

idrios 8y ago
It's a facilitator of bad habits. Telling him to leave Twitter is like telling an alcoholic to get the alcohol out of his house. In either case it's a good first step. But more directly, everyone makes mistakes and we make more rash decisions when we're stressed. At least without Twitter, his spurts of irrationality from being overwhelmed can be kept private and not affect his business.
jrumbut 8y ago
I once heard that root causes are almost never fixable, so pretty often the best that can be done is a few levels up. The root cause of anything is probably something like mortality, human frailty, the laws of physics. We are very far from fixing any of those. Twitter on the other hand can be changed, and probably some people on this very site work at Twitter and can (and should!) make socially responsible changes. It's not the root cause of anything but it has plenty of influence.
- randomsearch 8y ago
  This is an incredible insight. Thank you so much for sharing it.
- silentguy 8y ago
  > I once heard that root causes are almost never fixable I think we are playing with the definition of root cause here.

jdck1326 8y ago

>social media is bad for everyone disagree

simonh 8y ago
Someone is wrong on the Internet. Quick, attack!

mcdevilkiller 8y ago

He got the boring company where it is right now because of Twitter.

randomsearch 8y ago
Yes, I know. And some other things happened due to Twitter. But you don't do things just because they have _some_ upsides; you've got to take the balance. And I think it's been a clear net negative - e.g. potentially losing control of Tesla.

fjsolwmv 8y ago

You don't think Twitter was critical in building Musk's brand and investor interest?