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I am an ex-Twitter engineer with long tenure. You are sharing hearsay. It's not worth very much.
by http-teapot 4y ago
I am an ex-Twitter engineer with long tenure. You are sharing hearsay. It's not worth very much.
- InCityDreams 4y agoSo....tell us the truth.
- http-teapot 4y agoAt the scale of a company like Twitter, my point of view ain’t worth much either and pretending to hold the truth would be pretentious.
- jchw 4y agoWhile I understand what you’re getting at, this is basically pointless, because nobody is going to accept hand wavey “you can never know, so don’t even try!”-type answers. Even if that is the best way to go.
- wussboy 4y agoI’m not accusing GP of this necessarily, but quite often the view “since we can’t know everything, we can’t know anything” is considered wisdom. To the GP: we all understand that your experience isn’t the same experience of everyone, but it is AN experience, and would be useful to us who don’t have any experience.
- formerkrogeremp 4y ago"All models are wrong. Some models are useful."
- kmonsen 4y agoThere is a difference between the truth and a truth. It wouldn't be pretentious to share something of your story and how you saw it in the larger picture.
- http-teapot 4y agoThat’s fair but disinformation and the lack of actions against it was part of why I left Twitter. As such, I feel strongly about my experience not being interpreted as the truth or that a significant portion of the company shares the same views as I do. I feel like public discourse has increasingly been more and more polarizing and anecdotes and hearsay are being leveraged to create further divisions.
- kmonsen 4y agoI can certainly share your concern here, but not sure what can be done about this. Since you probably have done more thinking in this space, what are some things you think are possible?
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- honkdaddy 4y agoWhich part is hearsay?