Like this take, feels very even-handed. As an Elon fanboy going back years, I see this wave of hate as temporary, a natural backlash from overexposure. It has a

Like this take, feels very even-handed. As an Elon fanboy going back years, I see this wave of hate as temporary, a natural backlash from overexposure. It has a "bullying the substitute teacher" vibe on twitter. He's moving from being an underdog in tech (everyone loves an underdog, and tech people are very forgiving of oddball personality) to an overlord in politics. Rough transition. Would love to see him pull a Herbert-Hoover-in-WWI and use his engineering mindset to genuinely help people. People are focusing on the short-term (7000 people laid off at twitter! lame anti-woke jokes! what a jerk!), and missing the bigger picture. Algorithm-driven content is eating the world's attention. It's misaligned by ad dollars (twitter, fb) and race-to-the-bottom viral stickiness (tiktok). Some lucky people have resilient real-life social networks, but a lot of people are stuck at the bottom of a soulless lonely well. Online feeds are a poor substitute for community. Everyone you see is better than their real-world counterparts (can't look away!) and unattainably distant. Untying twitter from the next-quarter ad spend mindset is a great chance to reengineer it towards connection and away from broad dissemination.