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This is a huge part of why I was really hoping the Twitter sale wouldn't go through. Elon is great at leading engineering companies building real hard tech. I h

by grej 4y ago

This is a huge part of why I was really hoping the Twitter sale wouldn't go through. Elon is great at leading engineering companies building real hard tech. I hope his taking ownership over arguably the biggest cess pool in social media doesn't distract him from what he's better at.

mensetmanusman 4y ago
Elon buying twitter is a win win. If it fails-great, if it succeeds at not banning satire and increasing the amount of speech-great!
- macintux 4y ago
  The world has all the speech it needs. What it needs is more truth and less disinformation.
  - mensetmanusman 4y ago
    Nah, it needs more speech. Over a billion people can be imprisoned for life in China alone if they speak truth. Twitter banning the discussion of preferences was a bridge too far with the role it plays geopolitically.
BirAdam 4y ago
Elon Musk's career was initially in software. He started out on a VIC-20 and BASIC. He sold his first game at 12. More professionally he then was involved with Zip2. After that came X. X merged with PayPal and the product eventually sold to eBay. It was after those endeavors that he started SpaceX, followed by Tesla, Neuralink, and the Boring Company. Twitter is just the latest, and it represents his return to software. I understand not wanting him to get out of physical stuff where he seems to really shine, but I am not too worried. The biggest threat is really a matter of time management. He is now spreading his time really really thin across some of his companies.
- Symmetry 4y ago
  He got his career started in software but my overall impression from Ashlee Vance's book, news reports about Tesla, etc is that Elon just doesn't have the same good judgement in software that he does in engineering. I mean, he's smart and hard working and could iterate features fast but that's different from sustainable software engineering. And Twitter isn't really about software at his level, it's more organization where I also don't think he has an unusual talent. He is a heavy user of the platform, though, unlike the people who had been running it and it's possible that will give him better judgement over which features matter.

by grej 4y ago

mensetmanusman 4y ago

Elon buying twitter is a win win. If it fails-great, if it succeeds at not banning satire and increasing the amount of speech-great!

macintux 4y ago
The world has all the speech it needs. What it needs is more truth and less disinformation.
- mensetmanusman 4y ago
  Nah, it needs more speech. Over a billion people can be imprisoned for life in China alone if they speak truth. Twitter banning the discussion of preferences was a bridge too far with the role it plays geopolitically.

BirAdam 4y ago

Elon Musk's career was initially in software. He started out on a VIC-20 and BASIC. He sold his first game at 12. More professionally he then was involved with Zip2. After that came X. X merged with PayPal and the product eventually sold to eBay. It was after those endeavors that he started SpaceX, followed by Tesla, Neuralink, and the Boring Company. Twitter is just the latest, and it represents his return to software. I understand not wanting him to get out of physical stuff where he seems to really shine, but I am not too worried. The biggest threat is really a matter of time management. He is now spreading his time really really thin across some of his companies.

Symmetry 4y ago
He got his career started in software but my overall impression from Ashlee Vance's book, news reports about Tesla, etc is that Elon just doesn't have the same good judgement in software that he does in engineering. I mean, he's smart and hard working and could iterate features fast but that's different from sustainable software engineering. And Twitter isn't really about software at his level, it's more organization where I also don't think he has an unusual talent. He is a heavy user of the platform, though, unlike the people who had been running it and it's possible that will give him better judgement over which features matter.