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So reports that Musk asked Twitter engineers to print their code, and be ready for "code pairings" with Musk. As my own quote tweet below, I guess Musk is the next in line to discover the obvious: he's now in a people business, not a tech one.
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Silicon Valley is run by people want to be in the tech business, but are in the people business. They are way, way in over their heads.
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The "what about the code" part is a bit like "if the people only knew" feelings activists sometimes express. Informational flows are important, but in most societies, it's really not about singular information. There's rarely a magic piece of info that would change everything.
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His style is roving chaotic micromanagement of areas he thinks need attention. Those who can hold their own and survive the terror get in his good graces with high trust. Rest tend to quit from ptsd. His managerial gaze hops around eye-of-Mordor style. Method kinda works tbh.
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Credit where due. Tesla and SpaceX are genuine leadership achievements. I think this twitter bs is a dumb misadventure that will end poorly for all of us because it’s outside his strengths zone. But that shouldn’t detract from stuff he’s done well.
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