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Epilogue of my time working at Twitter

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Re: Epilogue of my time working at Twitter

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Post by JJMcJ »

bhauer wrote: post #21

I appreciate this considerably more nuanced and thoughtful view of the modern history of Twitter. So much coverage of Twitter since the Musk acquisition is entangled with partisan politics, ultimately in part thanks to Musk provoking such a reaction. That makes this post feel ever more illuminating and thoughtful—it avoids the partisan pitfalls and irrational extremism seen in virtually every other article on the top…

I spend time on Twitter. It certainly seems less interesting and more annoying than it did before EM took over.

Re: Epilogue of my time working at Twitter

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Post by deanCommie »

jpwerty wrote: post #22

He's providing a platform and cover for a child pornographer, live, in realtime, in public. There is something profoundly wrong in your worldview that's going to snap in one direction or another, and it's probably time for some self reflection.

It's cargo cult intellectualism.

Too often people believe that if they write and think in a detached and dispassionate way that their approach is intrinsically superior. Terms like "partisan pitfalls" and "irrational extremism" stake a claim that these things this person disagrees with are inherently bad.

As you say, we don't need a nuanced take on the "difficulty" of tolerance for intolerance. This is a solved problem, and well understood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Musk may be brilliant in engineering (Many claim he doesn't, but I'm willing to give him at least some credit for the clearly revolutionary technical advancements both Tesla and SpaceX have achieved. I think the idea that both companies only thrive in spite of him is patently ludicrous.), but he has a teenager-level emotional maturity when it comes to social and societal issues. And it shows when it comes to his explicit tolerance and encouragement of discrimination on Twitter.

Esther, meanwhile, is an admitted escapee of a genuine cult, that somehow missed all the signals, and dove into the same patterns headfirst when it came to Twitter post-Musk. I'm not going to psychologically diagnose someone from afar, but I suspect she needs help of the type neither Musk nor Twitter nor Hackernews can provide.

Re: Epilogue of my time working at Twitter

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Post by bhauer »

JJMcJ wrote: post #31
bhauer wrote: post #21

I appreciate this considerably more nuanced and thoughtful view of the modern history of Twitter. So much coverage of Twitter since the Musk acquisition is entangled with partisan politics, ultimately in part thanks to Musk provoking such a reaction. That makes this post feel ever more illuminating and thoughtful—it avoids the partisan pitfalls and irrational extremism seen in virtually every other article on the top…

I spend time on Twitter. It certainly seems less interesting and more annoying than it did before EM took over.

Aside from the feature changes, it seems about the same to me. I think it largely depends on who you follow and whether you use the "Following" or "For you" tab. I recommend the "Following" tab since this allows you to manage your feed by, unsurprisingly, selecting who you follow.

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

> Colleagues openly talked about how Twitter was being sold because leadership didn’t have conviction in their own plan or ability to fix longstanding problems.

I think, in this case, the colleagues were wrong. Twitter was sold because an idiot offered far more money than it was worth. If I have a coffee shop that earns me $100,000 in profit per year, and somebody offers to buy it from me for $10 million, I'm going to sell it to them even if I think the coffee shop is doing great and has the potential to grow.

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Post by indus »

My TLDR reading this:

- everyone working in big tech is so so lucky. millions of people would do anything for these jobs.

- contrary to what the narrative is set, the kitchen is dirty, shit is on fire, and barring a few no one has a clue.

- recruiters perpetuate the candidate bias manifold. “Get me a dropbox PM” or “Get me a a google ML person” sheer laziness as talent is all around.

Re: Epilogue of my time working at Twitter

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Post by bhauer »

deanCommie wrote: post #32
jpwerty wrote: post #22

He's providing a platform and cover for a child pornographer, live, in realtime, in public. There is something profoundly wrong in your worldview that's going to snap in one direction or another, and it's probably time for some self reflection.

It's cargo cult intellectualism. Too often people believe that if they write and think in a detached and dispassionate way that their approach is intrinsically superior. Terms like "partisan pitfalls" and "irrational extremism" stake a claim that these things this person disagrees with are inherently bad. As you say, we don't need a nuanced take on the "difficulty" of tolerance for intolerance. This is a solved probl…

> I'm not going to psychologically diagnose someone from afar, but I suspect she needs help of the type neither Musk nor Twitter nor Hackernews can provide.

I'm not a fan of this flavor of discourse, and frankly find it offensive. But I will tolerate it.

Re: Epilogue of my time working at Twitter

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Post by croes »

love2read wrote: post #36
croes wrote: post #30

>A high performance culture pulls everyone up, but the opposite weighs everyone down. I doubt that. Not the opposite part but the high performance one. Sounds like a road to burn out and depression.

Why depression?

Burnout can lead to depressive episodes.

Re: Epilogue of my time working at Twitter

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Post by ethanbond »

jpwerty wrote: post #22

He's providing a platform and cover for a child pornographer, live, in realtime, in public. There is something profoundly wrong in your worldview that's going to snap in one direction or another, and it's probably time for some self reflection.

What's this in reference to? (Blissfully have parted ways with Twitter so I'm not read in on the 24/7 Twitter meta-show)
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