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The purge continues. At least if we all know one thing it's that the most successful way to run a company is to instill a culture of fear and to surround yourse
by faefox 4y ago
The purge continues. At least if we all know one thing it's that the most successful way to run a company is to instill a culture of fear and to surround yourself with sycophants.
- lazyeye 4y agoId say its just as much about culture change as it is about saving money. Musk wants to shock people out of their complacency. They need to understand its a different company now. Results now matter. And publicly disagreeing with the owner of the company, whilst working for the company shows this guy is not particularly bright. So probably no great loss.
- microtherion 4y agoMaybe it shows that the guy values integrity higher than his job, or that he thinks he has alternatives to putting up with any BS a capricious owner wants to put him through.
- lazyeye 4y agoWell maybe but Elon's opinions I believe were based on discussions with multiple senior tech people at Twitter. Either way, it sounds like both parties are better off if he leaves so all good.
- routerl 4y agoHe was saying things that were clearly wrong (e.g. the client makes thousands of requests just to load the timeline), and easy to verify. So if that came from "multiple senior tech people", he's firing the wrong ones.
- lazyeye 4y agoDo you work for Twitter?
- microtherion 4y agoFrom other tweets I've read, the senior tech people could have told him something correct — that loading the timeline results in thousands of requests to microservices — but he misunderstood it — those requests do not at all originate 1:1 from the client, and they are not a huge factor in the overall latency.
- lazyeye 4y agoThats a possibility. Another possibility is that, unlike Elon Musk, nobody in this thread has the slightest clue as to what is going on with Twitter in any real sense but we all pretend that we do.
- microtherion 4y agoDo you really think a business works best if the owner surrounds themselves with yeasayers who nod along to everything they say, no matter how factually wrong it is?
- lazyeye 4y agoNo but there is a middle ground here and publicly disagreeing when there is so much media attention is just plain stupid. And who knows what is or isn't factually wrong here...certainly not you (or me).
- dilyevsky 4y agoI’m not sure this wasn’t how Twitter was run before. I’ve been in a few companies in the valley where this was the case just not so brazenly and out in the open.