11-16-2022, 09:01 PM
I have read Elon Musk's biography by Ashlee Vance. This ethos Musk is imposing on Twitter is completely consistent with how he has run things at Tesla and (especially) SpaceX. When those companies were getting going, workweeks upward of 100 hours for their engineers were not uncommon. Perhaps this is excessive but when you're endeavoring unprecedented feats in the physical world, extraordinary efforts are warranted and Musk has proven his values there.
Trying to transfer that routine to an enterprise that depends on speculative theories about the habits inherent in large-scale human behavior, concerning a mass communication technology that hasn't even been around for a generation, now that's another story.
Trying to transfer that routine to an enterprise that depends on speculative theories about the habits inherent in large-scale human behavior, concerning a mass communication technology that hasn't even been around for a generation, now that's another story.
". . . Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb!"
-- Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet in Spaceballs (1987)