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Nope, it's pretty obvious that he's not capable of handling criticism and thinks he's smarter than everyone else. The Twitter Blue rollout was an absolute disas
by phailhaus 4y ago
Nope, it's pretty obvious that he's not capable of handling criticism and thinks he's smarter than everyone else. The Twitter Blue rollout was an absolute disaster that everyone saw coming, and it is hard to believe nobody told him "if you only have to pay to get verified, everyone will make fake accounts." (Update: we now know they did. [3]) Shocking that he didn't think of it himself given his "genius" reputation.
And while he finds criticism from his employees unacceptable [1], he has no reservations against casually disparaging his entire team in public: "Starlink is rebuilding the Internet in space, so maybe I know slightly more than some guy who wrote code for a website" [2] Remember, he's referring to his own website here, and suggesting that he understands Twitter's infrastructure better than its own engineers because he owns Starlink. The narcissism on display is astounding.
There is nothing I would learn under Musk that I wouldn't be able to learn elsewhere without the toxic environment and the burden of having to walk on eggshells around a fragile CEO.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/musk-fires-twitter-engineers-for-correcting-criticizing-him-on-twitter-slack/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/musk-fires-twitt...
[2] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592564281698299904 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592564281698299904
[3] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/musk-ignored-twitter-staffs-warning-that-scammers-would-abuse-paid-verification/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/musk-ignored-twi...