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This is like acting surprised that a skateboard is not a suitable vehicle for going on a long vacation with.

skywhopper 8y ago
The newsworthy bit is that Jack seemed tripped up by it, too. Why agree to an interview in a format that will showcase the worst aspects of your product?
- noobiemcfoob 8y ago
  My theory is that Jack is trying to expose the flaws of twitter to the rest of the company. A way of bludgeoning the stubborn in the company by a blitz of bad press
  - smt88 8y ago
    You seem to be giving him too much credit. His recent interviews and (lack of) leadership have shown that he bludgeons no one, and the stubborn person is him. He's just an unusual kind of stubborn: unwilling to make any decision at all.
    - marssaxman 8y ago
      That, too, is a form of visionary leadership. He is protecting a bubble of chaos in which creative ferment can occur, by refusing to let outside forces impose too much order on it. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing depends on whether the bubble of chaos in question is working for you or not.
      - smt88 8y ago
        > by refusing to let outside forces impose too much order on it He also refuses to let inside forces impose order on it. He doesn't do anything at all. I would call Twitter a camel -- a horse designed by committee -- but it seems it's not even that. He apparently just consults committees ad infinitum and then does nothing.
  - untog 8y ago
    That seems like a remarkably bad strategy from a CEO. If your company is being stubborn, deal with it in-house, not in public.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
Not surprising though, we live in a world where developers seem continually surprised that a document format isn't ideal for application development.
- bryanrasmussen 8y ago
  XML can (be made to) do anything, man.
mcv 8y ago
More specifically: the skateboard manufacturer being surprised that a skateboard is not a suitable vehicle for a long trip.
- kjsthree 8y ago
  ^ nailed it
PavlovsCat 8y ago
Still my favourite summary of Twitter: > The following extract shows how a messaging client's text entry could be arbitrarily restricted to a fixed number of characters, thus forcing any conversation through this medium to be terse and discouraging intelligent discourse. > <label>What are you doing? <input name=status maxlength=140></label> -- Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#attr-input-maxlength https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#attr-input...

The newsworthy bit is that Jack seemed tripped up by it, too. Why agree to an interview in a format that will showcase the worst aspects of your product?

noobiemcfoob 8y ago
My theory is that Jack is trying to expose the flaws of twitter to the rest of the company. A way of bludgeoning the stubborn in the company by a blitz of bad press
- smt88 8y ago
  You seem to be giving him too much credit. His recent interviews and (lack of) leadership have shown that he bludgeons no one, and the stubborn person is him. He's just an unusual kind of stubborn: unwilling to make any decision at all.
  - marssaxman 8y ago
    That, too, is a form of visionary leadership. He is protecting a bubble of chaos in which creative ferment can occur, by refusing to let outside forces impose too much order on it. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing depends on whether the bubble of chaos in question is working for you or not.
    - smt88 8y ago
      > by refusing to let outside forces impose too much order on it He also refuses to let inside forces impose order on it. He doesn't do anything at all. I would call Twitter a camel -- a horse designed by committee -- but it seems it's not even that. He apparently just consults committees ad infinitum and then does nothing.
- untog 8y ago
  That seems like a remarkably bad strategy from a CEO. If your company is being stubborn, deal with it in-house, not in public.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago

Not surprising though, we live in a world where developers seem continually surprised that a document format isn't ideal for application development.

bryanrasmussen 8y ago
XML can (be made to) do anything, man.

mcv 8y ago

More specifically: the skateboard manufacturer being surprised that a skateboard is not a suitable vehicle for a long trip.

kjsthree 8y ago
^ nailed it

PavlovsCat 8y ago

Still my favourite summary of Twitter: > The following extract shows how a messaging client's text entry could be arbitrarily restricted to a fixed number of characters, thus forcing any conversation through this medium to be terse and discouraging intelligent discourse. > <label>What are you doing? <input name=status maxlength=140></label> -- Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#attr-input-maxlength https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#attr-input...