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Talk about a generalization. So all remaining Twitter employees will be Republicans? And there are no high performing republican software engineers that will say "F-this. I have lots of places to work." And leave? But this has F-all to do with what political leanings the employee base has. There are far too many people that believe that 100% of peoples life decisions are dictated by what box they select when the vote. Its just not true.

IMO, he is too stretched thin, and too autocratic to delegate the decisions. Anyway, you and I can disagree until either Twitter thrives, or fails under his leadership.

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Talk about a generalization. So all remaining Twitter employees will be Republicans? And there are no high performing republican software engineers that will say "F-this. I have lots of places to work." And leave? But this has F-all to do with what political leanings the employee base has. There are far too many people that believe that 100% of peoples life decisions are dictated by what box they select when the vote. Its just not true.

IMO, he is too stretched thin, and too autocratic to delegate the decisions. Anyway, you and I can disagree until either Twitter thrives, or fails under his leadership.
You one of the snowflake twitter workers? :) The workforce in this country has gone to crap. I am so sick of it. No matter how nice you try to be, someone always has a freaking issue. We had someone leave, young snowflake, because of "injustice" whatever the hell that is supposed to mean. I'm about to go back to the dictator days -- when your house is on the line, then I'll give you a freaking say. So sick of it. Twitter will survive without the snowflakes, their free starbucks, free lunches, and 20 hour workweeks.
 
What gets me here is that no one is talking about the elections and how f'd up they were/are. Instead we're worrying about Twitcup and the snowflakes that got axed. I wish they would clean house in FB as well. But I guess that is hoping for too much.

Definitely not a Musk fan but I totally agree with what @ttmott posted a few pages back and love Starlink ...
 
Yep, a golf cart that'll do 0-60 in just over three seconds, has a top speed of 168 miles an hour, and a range of close to 400 miles. Don't get me wrong; I'm not trying to justify the thing, only stating what it can do. It's just unfortunate that it's become another political tool, just like the whole Covid mask and "vaccine" fiasco.

That 400 mile range is an EPA rated range, like mpg on the window sticker, it’s not a prediction that the car will actually travel 400 miles. 70% of EPA rate is what owners should use as guide.

Then of course you wait 20-40 hours on a level 1 ac outlet at home to recharge, or 8-12 hours on a Tesla charger.

They suck. There is absolutely no benefit to the “climate” w EVs.
 
That 400 mile range is an EPA rated range, like mpg on the window sticker, it’s not a prediction that the car will actually travel 400 miles. 70% of EPA rate is what owners should use as guide.

Then of course you wait 20-40 hours on a level 1 ac outlet at home to recharge, or 8-12 hours on a Tesla charger.

They suck. There is absolutely no benefit to the “climate” w EVs.
Yep, no argument here. Just what my buddy has experienced with his. He regularly runs to the coast with his Tesla on a 500 mile run, stopping about mid-way for lunch. He says the car charges up in that 20 minutes to more than make the rest of the trip. Again, just anecdotal experience of one car.
 
That 400 mile range is an EPA rated range, like mpg on the window sticker, it’s not a prediction that the car will actually travel 400 miles. 70% of EPA rate is what owners should use as guide.

Then of course you wait 20-40 hours on a level 1 ac outlet at home to recharge, or 8-12 hours on a Tesla charger.

They suck. There is absolutely no benefit to the “climate” w EVs.

Oh boy…
 
Interesting article in the Globe and Mail. Its short, for those of you that find it hard to get to the end of the words in a meme (come on, lighten up. Its a joke.)

Twitter was a dumpster fire long before Musk – he might be its only lifeline
  • The Globe and Mail (Ontario Edition)
  • 30 Nov 2022
  • GORAN CALIC Associate professor of strategic management at McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business
It would be easy to characterize Elon Musk’s approach since taking over Twitter Inc. last month as rash, messy, destructive and unplanned.

While such descriptions would be accurate, they would certainly not be complete.

What we have been witnessing, in public and in real time, is a live demonstration of the way Mr. Musk runs a business. He has generally managed his other ventures very successfully – especially in terms of growth, if not always in terms of profit. Tesla Inc. continues to build factories and deliver cars and SpaceX rockets continue to supply the International Space Station with materials and astronauts.

It’s important to keep two things in mind while following the Twitter drama: The company was already in serious trouble and Mr. Musk’s style, though volatile, is well-matched to the problems at hand.

Since 2013, Twitter had fallen from the world’s third-largest social-media platform to the 17th. The company had barely innovated during that time, while its competitors had worked hard to reinvent themselves.

Eleven of the social-media platforms with more users are newer than Twitter. Even older incumbents are more innovative. Facebook, for example, has launched Marketplace and shifted its focus to the metaverse. In a fast-paced industry such as social media, it is vital to change and quickly to stay ahead.

If a company decides not to be innovative, as Twitter’s developers had openly acknowledged, the alternative is to be highly efficient. But Twitter, based on revenue per employee, was only 50 per cent as efficient as Facebook.

In 2016, rumours suggested another large corporation, possibly Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc. or Walt Disney Co., was about to acquire Twitter, but that didn’t happen. The most-cited reason was that Twitter was paying its employees twice what the competition was paying and no one wanted to engage in messy layoffs and restructuring.

Today, even relatively efficient companies are cutting spending. Amazon.com Inc. is slashing 10,000 jobs, Meta Platforms Inc. (Facebook’s parent) will cut more than 11,000 and HP Inc. will slash 4,000 to 6,000 jobs, to name just a few.

Twitter had to change to survive. Other owners might have studied efficiencies and signalled layoffs, but taken months to do it. Such efforts can send company morale and productivity into the gutter. When Mr. Musk fired half Twitter’s staff, he was doing what another owner eventually would have done.

To create a more innovative Twitter, Mr. Musk has already made, and retracted, product changes, as well as promising many more – including the potential for Twitter banking.

All this experimentation, of course, is happening publicly, rather than in a research lab or with limited groups of beta testers. The chaotic push and pull over Twitter’s verification badges, for example, has frustrated users, created massive reputational issues and provided much fodder for mischief, but it makes more sense if we regard this as an entrepreneur experimenting with different options in real time.

In business schools, we teach management as a very deliberate process in which action follows analysis, planning and deliberation. This is what most analysts would consider typical style. But there is another style of management entrepreneurs use, which is especially risky. Entrepreneurial management creates success through direct action and trial and error.

Mr. Musk is an entrepreneurial manager, and this style, which is destructive – and creative – is now on full display. Because we so rarely get to see this approach in action, it’s shocking; but it’s how Mr. Musk operates.

He starts working on a problem without knowing what the solution might be. He believes a solution exists and will emerge through trial and error.

At SpaceX he started strapping GoPro cameras to rockets and livestreaming every launch – even for experimental rockets that were likely to fail, hoping to gather useful information.

Other spacecraft developers would go to great lengths to prevent others from seeing a launch.

The last thing they’d want was a prospective customer such as NASA seeing a version of the rocket they’re trying to sell being blown to pieces.

With Twitter, journalists, advertisers, politicians and users are all watching aspects of the business exploding in real time and using the platform itself to criticize what Mr. Musk is doing.

Every entrepreneurial venture has a greater chance of failure than of success, and Twitter is particularly risky. Mr. Musk himself said when he launched Tesla that it was probably going to fail. The same with SpaceX. At Twitter, he sent an e-mail to employees saying the company could be bankrupt by next year.

Mr. Musk could make horrible mistakes that kill the company, but it would likely have eventually failed regardless, and today he may be the only person who is interested in buying Twitter and has a shot at keeping it going.

For the public, witnessing this saga is like watching open-heart surgery on a very sick patient: It can be rough, dramatic, bloody and off-putting, but it may the only way to give the patient a chance to survive.
 
Interesting article in the Globe and Mail. Its short, for those of you that find it hard to get to the end of the words in a meme (come on, lighten up. Its a joke.)

Twitter was a dumpster fire long before Musk – he might be its only lifeline
  • The Globe and Mail (Ontario Edition)
  • 30 Nov 2022
  • GORAN CALIC Associate professor of strategic management at McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business
It would be easy to characterize Elon Musk’s approach since taking over Twitter Inc. last month as rash, messy, destructive and unplanned.

While such descriptions would be accurate, they would certainly not be complete.

What we have been witnessing, in public and in real time, is a live demonstration of the way Mr. Musk runs a business. He has generally managed his other ventures very successfully – especially in terms of growth, if not always in terms of profit. Tesla Inc. continues to build factories and deliver cars and SpaceX rockets continue to supply the International Space Station with materials and astronauts.

It’s important to keep two things in mind while following the Twitter drama: The company was already in serious trouble and Mr. Musk’s style, though volatile, is well-matched to the problems at hand.

Since 2013, Twitter had fallen from the world’s third-largest social-media platform to the 17th. The company had barely innovated during that time, while its competitors had worked hard to reinvent themselves.

Eleven of the social-media platforms with more users are newer than Twitter. Even older incumbents are more innovative. Facebook, for example, has launched Marketplace and shifted its focus to the metaverse. In a fast-paced industry such as social media, it is vital to change and quickly to stay ahead.

If a company decides not to be innovative, as Twitter’s developers had openly acknowledged, the alternative is to be highly efficient. But Twitter, based on revenue per employee, was only 50 per cent as efficient as Facebook.

In 2016, rumours suggested another large corporation, possibly Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc. or Walt Disney Co., was about to acquire Twitter, but that didn’t happen. The most-cited reason was that Twitter was paying its employees twice what the competition was paying and no one wanted to engage in messy layoffs and restructuring.

Today, even relatively efficient companies are cutting spending. Amazon.com Inc. is slashing 10,000 jobs, Meta Platforms Inc. (Facebook’s parent) will cut more than 11,000 and HP Inc. will slash 4,000 to 6,000 jobs, to name just a few.

Twitter had to change to survive. Other owners might have studied efficiencies and signalled layoffs, but taken months to do it. Such efforts can send company morale and productivity into the gutter. When Mr. Musk fired half Twitter’s staff, he was doing what another owner eventually would have done.

To create a more innovative Twitter, Mr. Musk has already made, and retracted, product changes, as well as promising many more – including the potential for Twitter banking.

All this experimentation, of course, is happening publicly, rather than in a research lab or with limited groups of beta testers. The chaotic push and pull over Twitter’s verification badges, for example, has frustrated users, created massive reputational issues and provided much fodder for mischief, but it makes more sense if we regard this as an entrepreneur experimenting with different options in real time.

In business schools, we teach management as a very deliberate process in which action follows analysis, planning and deliberation. This is what most analysts would consider typical style. But there is another style of management entrepreneurs use, which is especially risky. Entrepreneurial management creates success through direct action and trial and error.

Mr. Musk is an entrepreneurial manager, and this style, which is destructive – and creative – is now on full display. Because we so rarely get to see this approach in action, it’s shocking; but it’s how Mr. Musk operates.

He starts working on a problem without knowing what the solution might be. He believes a solution exists and will emerge through trial and error.

At SpaceX he started strapping GoPro cameras to rockets and livestreaming every launch – even for experimental rockets that were likely to fail, hoping to gather useful information.

Other spacecraft developers would go to great lengths to prevent others from seeing a launch.

The last thing they’d want was a prospective customer such as NASA seeing a version of the rocket they’re trying to sell being blown to pieces.

With Twitter, journalists, advertisers, politicians and users are all watching aspects of the business exploding in real time and using the platform itself to criticize what Mr. Musk is doing.

Every entrepreneurial venture has a greater chance of failure than of success, and Twitter is particularly risky. Mr. Musk himself said when he launched Tesla that it was probably going to fail. The same with SpaceX. At Twitter, he sent an e-mail to employees saying the company could be bankrupt by next year.

Mr. Musk could make horrible mistakes that kill the company, but it would likely have eventually failed regardless, and today he may be the only person who is interested in buying Twitter and has a shot at keeping it going.

For the public, witnessing this saga is like watching open-heart surgery on a very sick patient: It can be rough, dramatic, bloody and off-putting, but it may the only way to give the patient a chance to survive.
And yet, if I recall correctly you’ve been his biggest critic.
 
And yet, if I recall correctly you’ve been his biggest critic.
Biggest critic? No. Just questioning his knee jerk approach to the fix. And his ability to maintain control over Twitter and also Tesla. I still think there is a high probability that he will not be able to fix Twitter with the tactics he is using.
 
Biggest critic? No. Just questioning his knee jerk approach to the fix. And his ability to maintain control over Twitter and also Tesla. I still think there is a high probability that he will not be able to fix Twitter with the tactics he is using.

Cut 75% and its running better... and rumor is if Apple takes it off the app store he'll release his own smartphone.

Seems genius to me...
 
Biggest critic? No. Just questioning his knee jerk approach to the fix. And his ability to maintain control over Twitter and also Tesla. I still think there is a high probability that he will not be able to fix Twitter with the tactics he is using.
Oh c’mon …. You can’t sit on the sidelines like the rest of us and know what’s going on at either company. Just sit back and enjoy the ride…. You won’t see this again for a long time
 
So Musk called out Apple and Tim Cook. Musk saying Cook isn't happy that Twitter is not censoring certain political posts that didn't agree with their political leanings. Seems Cook isn't happy that the Republicans can now express their opinions without being deleted and suspended
 

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