> Musk saw genuine bloat at Twitter. I'm reminded of a saying: "Just because they are out to get you, doesn't mean you're not paranoid." That he was able to c

> Musk saw genuine bloat at Twitter. I'm reminded of a saying: "Just because they are out to get you, doesn't mean you're not paranoid." That he was able to cut a lot from Twitter, doesn't mean he cut wisely, for reasons connected with reality. It survived the loss of teams dedicated to ongoing feature development, but the loss of teams dedicated to community management appears (from the outside) to have been the proximal cause of the loss of trust that many advertisers, users, and governments have had with the company. Cutting both at the same time suggests the action was not done from a place of wisdom, but rather that it was luck one of the cuts wasn't critical. (This is what I expect given a Muntzing strategy: discover which components are load-baring by seeing what happens when they are removed. But when did I learn about Muntzing, and was it after Musk did his thing with Twitter?)