Elon Musk buying Twitter exposes the great divide

Devi said:
I'd be curious to see the actual email, not just one reported online.
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The email is included in the cnbc.com link from post #224. Here it is again.

Here’s the full email that Elon Musk sent to Twitter employees on Wednesday (transcribed by CNBC):

From: Elon Musk

To: Team [at Twitter]

Subj. A Fork in the Road

Date: Nov. 16, 2022 [time stamp removed]

Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.

Twitter will also be much more engineering-driven. Design and product management will still be very important and report to me, but those writing great code will constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway.

At its heart, Twitter is a software and servers company, so l think this makes sense.

If you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter, please click yes on the link below:

[Link removed]

Anyone who has not done so by 5pm ET tomorrow (Thursday) will receive three months of severance.

Whatever decision you make, thank you for your efforts to make Twitter successful.

Elon
 

Devi said:
Curious. How can one agree to "high hours" without knowing what they are? Eight hours a day? Ten? Fifteen?

I'd be curious to see the actual email, not just one reported online.
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Elon Musk smokes pot, so "high hours" may have to do with that. :ROFLMAO:
 
Pink Biz said:
The email is included in the cnbc.com link from post #224. Here it is again.

Here’s the full email that Elon Musk sent to Twitter employees on Wednesday (transcribed by CNBC):

From: Elon Musk

To: Team [at Twitter]

Subj. A Fork in the Road

Date: Nov. 16, 2022 [time stamp removed]

Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.

Twitter will also be much more engineering-driven. Design and product management will still be very important and report to me, but those writing great code will constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway.

At its heart, Twitter is a software and servers company, so l think this makes sense.

If you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter, please click yes on the link below:

[Link removed]

Anyone who has not done so by 5pm ET tomorrow (Thursday) will receive three months of severance.

Whatever decision you make, thank you for your efforts to make Twitter successful.

Elon
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Musk is a great engineer, which is why Tesla and SpaceX are so successful. That's pure engineering... the stuff of black and white thinking. But Twitter is social media, which has to do with emotions. Sure, you could get it to perform flawlessly, but if it's not what people want to network with other people, it's going to lose members.

Musk is autistic, which means his connections with people is much different than those who are not. That is why he may fail at this endeavor when he has been successful at pretty much everything else he's attempted.

Most people don't want a lot of stress at work. Musk is deliberately causing stress by telling software developers they're going to be required to work long hours in sweatshop conditions. People are going to get burned out and seek other employment opportunities.

Or not. We shall see.
 

SeniorBen said:
Musk is a great engineer, which is why Tesla and SpaceX are so successful. That's pure engineering... the stuff of black and white thinking. But Twitter is social media, which has to do with emotions. Sure, you could get it to perform flawlessly, but if it's not what people want to network with other people, it's going to lose members.

Musk is autistic, which means his connections with people is much different than those who are not. That is why he may fail at this endeavor when he has been successful at pretty much everything else he's attempted.

Most people don't want a lot of stress at work. Musk is deliberately causing stress by telling software developers they're going to be required to work long hours in sweatshop conditions. People are going to get burned out and seek other employment opportunities.

Or not. We shall see.
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Your analysis of Musk is on target, I think. The one thing he has going for him is that the tech labor market has changed in a hurry. Everyone is getting laid off and jobs are in short supply. That may help him retain some talent.

But talk about not having a dog in this fight, I've been on Twitter about three times for about a day at a time. It's a really unpleasant, nasty environment. I really don't care if it exists or not.
 
Tech jobs are not in "short supply." There is a tech worker shortage. While tech companies might be laying off workers, there was massive hiring last year by some companies and they're laying off a few workers now due to overhiring.
  • On earnings calls over the past few weeks, tech leaders have been talking about layoffs and hiring slowdowns.
  • At the same time, the July jobs report showed robust growth in job creation and a record-low unemployment rate.
  • Many tech companies overhired during the pandemic and now need to trim staff and save money during a tougher economic cycle.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/13/tec...ers-even-as-the-talent-shortage-rages-on.html
 
I think Elon Musk has great ideas but when it comes down to the nuts & bolts he hires great engineers. As an example, designing the Raptor 2 rocket engine requires multiples disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, structural, thermodynamics, hydraulics, fluid dynamics, material processes, etc… There is no one person that can perform all these functions. This type of rocket motor has never been tried before because of the complexities associated with it.

I think he knows how to motivate his engineers giving them great ideas and the resources to do it. Also, unlike most other companies, he embraces an iterative process to learn by mistake believing this is a faster cheaper methodology. One of his favorite statements is the best part is no part. In other words, get rid of everything you possible can – less to go wrong.

His new space ship StarShip will have 33 Raptor 2 engines producing a total thrust of 17 million pounds! The first orbital flight is about to occur in the next few months. It might blowup but as mentioned that's OK. This rocket ship is reusable and has a payload capacity of 220,000 lbs. One configuration of this rocket ship can hold up to 100 people.

No one man could ever design all this but one man has made it possible to happen!

Note: Elon Musk does not have any formal training in engineering and does not say he is an engineer.
 
Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, had to flee his home due to an escalation in threats resulting from Elon Musk’s campaign of criticism against him. Roth has faced a storm of attacks and threats of violence following the release of the so-called “Twitter Files” — internal Twitter communications that Musk has released through journalists including Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss. Musk also endorsed a tweet that baselessly accused Roth of being sympathetic to pedophilia.

I thought Matt Taibbi had more integrity than what he's displayed recently. Guess not.

Musk also disbanded its 'Trust and Safety Council', which was made up of external expert organizations that advised on issues including online safety, human and digital rights, suicide prevention, mental health, child sexual exploitation, and dehumanization.
 
Yeah, I don't have anything good to say about him buying Twitter, except maybe, you gotta take the bad along with the good.
 
I was on Twitter several years ago and got off it, the same as FB because it was just sickening. Went back on Twitter after it was bought out and am finding it very different. My partner said it’s like reading the editorial section of the newspaper and he is not on Twitter.
 

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