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Seriously, who cares? First, the idiosyncrasies of the rich and powerful are way less important than the amount of space given to them in the press, even for t

Seriously, who cares? First, the idiosyncrasies of the rich and powerful are way less important than the amount of space given to them in the press, even for this extremely short article. Very few of these "Jack doesn't use a computer" and "Tim Cook wakes up at 4 o'clock" are actually useful, aside from the voyeur aspect. For all we know Jack has some pretty brutal RSI and Siri is the only way that he can actually type, or whatever. It's pointless, is what I'm saying. And with more snark: it's not like he's running all those companies well. Twitter is a garbage fire that's probably propped up by bots that Twitter is ignoring for their ad revenue. Everyone I know resents what Twitter does to their mental health and wants to spend less time on it and talking about it, myself certainly included.

loeber 8y ago
Downvoted for writing a generally ill-considered response. Regarding whether or not Jack Dorsey is running these companies well: Square is up a nice 5x over the last five years. That's a $32b market cap now. It's a big company. Their credit card readers are _everywhere_. Twitter is more controversial, sure, but it's certainly been improved over the last two years. I actually quite like using it.
- metildaa 8y ago
  Edit: Two downvotes but no comments? Pretty lame downvoters today... With regard to Twitter, what is being done to staunch the bleeding of users? I stopped using it in favor of Mastodon, which is starting to eat into my Reddit usage as of late. The ability to chat with interesting people who can hold a high caliber conversation reminds me of certain subreddits & IRC to a degree.
  - goodstuff9 8y ago
    > today
goodstuff9 8y ago
Well said. Celebrity worshipping is a staple anywhere you go. It's either the kardashians (who are different from what they show on TV) or the dorseys. And about twitter bring dumpster fire, somebody a few days back commented in the context if uptime reliability- if a payment gateway goes down, it hurts global economy, if a non-descript site goes down, nobody cares and if twitter goes down, people heave a sigh of relief. Or something along those lines.

loeber 8y ago

Downvoted for writing a generally ill-considered response. Regarding whether or not Jack Dorsey is running these companies well: Square is up a nice 5x over the last five years. That's a $32b market cap now. It's a big company. Their credit card readers are _everywhere_. Twitter is more controversial, sure, but it's certainly been improved over the last two years. I actually quite like using it.

metildaa 8y ago
Edit: Two downvotes but no comments? Pretty lame downvoters today... With regard to Twitter, what is being done to staunch the bleeding of users? I stopped using it in favor of Mastodon, which is starting to eat into my Reddit usage as of late. The ability to chat with interesting people who can hold a high caliber conversation reminds me of certain subreddits & IRC to a degree.
- goodstuff9 8y ago
  > today

goodstuff9 8y ago

Well said. Celebrity worshipping is a staple anywhere you go. It's either the kardashians (who are different from what they show on TV) or the dorseys. And about twitter bring dumpster fire, somebody a few days back commented in the context if uptime reliability- if a payment gateway goes down, it hurts global economy, if a non-descript site goes down, nobody cares and if twitter goes down, people heave a sigh of relief. Or something along those lines.