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Elon could both be smart and making huge mistakes. It happens all the time.
by KMag 4y ago
Elon could both be smart and making huge mistakes. It happens all the time.
- shanebellone 4y agoElon's behavior, opinions, and points of view suggest otherwise. His only notable quality is his wealth.
- throwntoday 4y agoI think they are laying the groundwork to allow creators to monetize their tweets and additional content. As it stands a lot of creators are monetizing their content off platform (patreon, substack, youtube, onlyfans, etc.) and the goal is to lock them and their content into twitter. I think it's a good idea as content is king, but they should have rolled this out after they had established an ability to monetize. Once people leave the platform it will be tough to get them back unless they offer a very lucrative comission split with creators.
- cyberphobe 4y agoYeah it's probably that, not that everyone is fleeing Elon's $44 billion dying platform and he's is trying to stop it in whatever way he can.
- throwntoday 4y agoDo you even use twitter? Activity is the same as it's ever been. I think many people are overstating how many people are "fleeing" because of their personal disdain for Musk. If they were actually concerned with people fleeing why would they do something which is more likely to make creators leave?
- cyberphobe 4y ago> If they were actually concerned with people fleeing why would they do something which is more likely to make creators leave? you're asking this in a sub-thread about if Elon is smart or not? I thought the answer was obvious.
- throwntoday 4y agoYes I'm sure you're far more successful than that simpleton Elon.
- cyberphobe 4y agowe were talking about if Elon is stupid. The answer is, obviously, yes. Being stupid has nothing to do with success, also obviously.
- fundad 4y agoHoping they can restore brand safety to pull that off.
- rc_mob 4y agoElon is definitely not a smart human. Maybe 25 years ago he did a thing. Ok.
- wardedVibe 4y agoIntelligence is overrated for it's utility in navigating the world.
- cyberphobe 4y agoThis is true. Wealth is what matters in this world, not intelligence.
- ben_w 4y agoSomeone can be both smart and Dunning-Kruger themselves in the face. I don't know why someone who (self-diagnosed?) as having Asperger's thinks they'd be a good fit for leading a social media company, that feels like having a an amputee selling staircases [0]; but the rocket nerds I follow seem pretty convinced Musk genuinely knows actual rocket science. [0] as in: it could work, but you'd not expect it by default
- KMag 4y agoOkay, so what's you over-under for Elon's IQ, or are you making a subtle distinction between intelligent and smart?
- blobster 4y agoAlso, people can be both smart and stupid at different times and sometimes even at the same time. It's not a binary thing.
- elliekelly 4y agoThis is absolutely true. But I think “smart” leadership avoids repeatedly doubling down on their mistakes. You can, very rarely, double down on what looks like a bad bet and come out ahead. I’m not even sure I’d call that smart but it does happen. But it takes a not-smart person to see the losses stacking up over and over and decide to dig in their heels. Even if you’re absolutely certain your goals and overall strategy are right a smart person would understand that something needs to change in the messaging and/or execution given the overwhelmingly negative feedback.
- ehsankia 4y agoI really don't want to be defending Elon, but I think saying "Elon must be stupid because of how he handled Twitter" is as silly as "Elon had success with Tesla and SpaceX therefore he knows how to run companies". Those two seem like two extremes. The answer seems more along the lines of, Twitter and its problems are very very different from Tesla/SpaceX, and while Elon may have been good at the latter, he has zero experience with the former. That being said, not realizing the above I guess makes him partly not-smart, and I assume the shortsightedness was due to the inflated ego caused by his previous two successes.
- elliekelly 4y agoYes I think it’s probably more accurate to say his problems stem from ego & arrogance rather than stupidity.
- nradov 4y agoFor a classic example see former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. By any conventional measure he was very smart, and yet he made a series of catastrophically bad decisions which are still impacting US national security today. Intelligence is overrated in leaders. Character, humility, principles, and discipline are far more valuable in avoiding huge mistakes.
- flyinglizard 4y agoIt really depends on the organization being led. Vision is not something you can easily outsource or task subordinates with. I mean one of the classic leader types would never set himself up to fail in early days SpaceX. What a startup, a market leader and a government organization need are distinct types of leadership. Sometimes there are prodigies who can do two of these. Musk did.
- croes 4y agoHe could be a dumb guy make much right. It happens all the time.