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> The cult of personality is more important than the actual output There is a quite interesting inverse effect too, though. Musk's actual output is undeniably
by jhugo 5y ago
> The cult of personality is more important than the actual output
There is a quite interesting inverse effect too, though. Musk's actual output is undeniably pretty impressive (I challenge you to watch a rocket land on a drone ship and tell me otherwise!), yet there is a veritable army of people online waiting to suggest in the comments on stories like this that he's just all about memes and personality. Maybe two opposing reality distortion fields with Musk suspended somewhere in the middle?
- UncleMeat 5y agoJobs' output was impressive too! The reality distortion field enables Musk to hire extremely effectively. I know some really really strong engineers who chose SpaceX because Musk is there, despite having higher paying offers elsewhere. A big challenge is that Twitter's problems aren't engineering problems. They are sociology problems. Musk has demonstrated that he can hire engineers to solve engineering problems. How well will that translate into sociology problems?
- jhugo 5y ago> Musk has demonstrated that he can hire engineers to solve engineering problems. How well will that translate into sociology problems? I can't wait to see! Either he improves Twitter, which is great because it's in really bad shape, or he destroys it, which is great because something else can fill the void.