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> have him fix it to his liking Like when he strolled into Twitter, acted like he knew better than everyone, delivered nothing and then left. There is far mor

> have him fix it to his liking Like when he strolled into Twitter, acted like he knew better than everyone, delivered nothing and then left. There is far more to achieving things in large companies than simply having great technical skills.

ein0p 3y ago
IDK, dude’s provably pretty capable as long as you don’t attempt to drown him in a bureaucratic swamp. Betcha he’d fix it pretty good.
- jiggawatts 3y ago
  > don’t attempt to drown him in a bureaucratic swamp You weren't listening to the GP comment. He's expected to succeed while being drowned in the swamp. That's what most people mean and expect when they bring in an outsider. "Fix our problems, but without changing anything to do with management."
  - fragmede 3y ago
    There's a difference between fixing technical problems and cultural problems. Hotz has proven to be a wizard at technical ones, while his skill with fixing cultural issues remains to be seen.
    - devonkim 3y ago
      Any long-lasting solution requiring continuous investments is going to require more impact on the people side than the technical side. Hiring maybe one or two technical wizard asshats at a company may work for a bit but can’t scale in that eventually asshats will either drive away enough potential contributors or clash with another asshat. Any company actually needing said asshats to conduct business has a form of organizational tech debt in that they’ll need to spend a lot of resources managing around said persons in the end while said person’s ego continues to grow convinced they’re primarily responsible for successes.
- moooo99 3y ago
  idk, but Twitter under early Musk leadership sounded like anything but a bureaucratic swamp and he still absolutely and predictably failed. However, Twitter was a pretty different problem domain to what he was initially known for
lofaszvanitt 3y ago
Yeah, but you don't know the reasons.

ein0p 3y ago

IDK, dude’s provably pretty capable as long as you don’t attempt to drown him in a bureaucratic swamp. Betcha he’d fix it pretty good.

jiggawatts 3y ago
> don’t attempt to drown him in a bureaucratic swamp You weren't listening to the GP comment. He's expected to succeed while being drowned in the swamp. That's what most people mean and expect when they bring in an outsider. "Fix our problems, but without changing anything to do with management."
- fragmede 3y ago
  There's a difference between fixing technical problems and cultural problems. Hotz has proven to be a wizard at technical ones, while his skill with fixing cultural issues remains to be seen.
  - devonkim 3y ago
    Any long-lasting solution requiring continuous investments is going to require more impact on the people side than the technical side. Hiring maybe one or two technical wizard asshats at a company may work for a bit but can’t scale in that eventually asshats will either drive away enough potential contributors or clash with another asshat. Any company actually needing said asshats to conduct business has a form of organizational tech debt in that they’ll need to spend a lot of resources managing around said persons in the end while said person’s ego continues to grow convinced they’re primarily responsible for successes.
moooo99 3y ago
idk, but Twitter under early Musk leadership sounded like anything but a bureaucratic swamp and he still absolutely and predictably failed. However, Twitter was a pretty different problem domain to what he was initially known for

lofaszvanitt 3y ago

Yeah, but you don't know the reasons.