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His approach works for a mission driven products like Tesla or Space-X. Both were started at the right times yet it’s not obvious whether the engineering would
by nobodyandproud 4y ago
His approach works for a mission driven products like Tesla or Space-X.
Both were started at the right times yet it’s not obvious whether the engineering would’ve happened without his at-all-costs method and the vision/mission driving it.
Even then everyone understood the enormous pressures the workers were under but one could admire what was being acheived as the trailblazer.
I just don’t see any vision or mission to admire for Twitter especially with Musk at the helm.
- theptip 4y agoI think this is the right take. If you assemble a team around the vision to colonize Mars, you will get a bunch of amazing people that are (for a while) willing to put up with crazy work. Trying to force this on an existing culture will be hard, and doing the “extreme pressure” bit with no vision beyond “more free speech” seems impossible. Maybe he will get there and in a few months the remainder will have coalesced around the joy of shipping good features fast. But things like labor laws and the FCC consent decree will provide a strong legacy drag.
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- capitalsigma 4y agoAlso, like, it's plausible that working long hours and pushing hard for progress kind of makes sense when you're doing cutting edge stuff, pushing the boundary of what's possible, etc. It's unclear why you would need that attitude to run a mature social media site.
- EMIRELADERO 4y ago> But things like labor laws and the FCC consent decree will provide a strong legacy drag. You know you're on the "bad side" when labor laws are computed as a nuisance.
- memish 4y agoHe's definitely not communicating the vision as well as he did with Tesla or SpaceX. That's a serious problem. But he has said the plan is to turn it into X, the everything app. Like WeChat.