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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.