Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022

Post by towaway15463 » Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 1:00 PM UTC

Huh1337 wrote: post #192

birdman3131 wrote: post #187

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It can mean that or more likely means "We have gone past the usefulness of async short texts as a means of conversations." Text/tweets are useful but are sub optimal for actually discussing stuff like this. Voice is so much better in this case.

What? I've literally never felt this way. Every time someone wanted to have a call with me, it was so they could push me into something with their whining, or so they could misinterpret what was said without me being able to point at a timestamped sentence. For these reasons I always refuse calls about anything important - and never had any problems solving various business issues over text. How specifically is text…

Post by b112 » Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 1:00 PM UTC

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Intelligence has diminishing returns. Not enough, and that is a problem, but as you get more it becomes worth less and less by itself. The most valuable commodity in our economy is productive attention. A dude with a 105 IQ who "grinds" 16 hours a day will out-compete a dude with a 130 IQ who has a million ideas and thoughts, but can't grind them to reality. Of course someone who is high in both, can become Elon Musk…

You forgot the bit where you inherit an apartheid emerald fortune.

Post by boringg » Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 1:02 PM UTC

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It’s pretty hard for even CEOs to control direction sometimes especially in big companies. A company is like a cthonic beast with many writhing tentacles that is in fact composed of thousands of cats. A black mass of cats, writhing, seeking, crawling toward anything that will increase its share price or get a cat promoted…

A CEO is just an employee, paid by the shareholders to do the job shareholders want him to do. Usually, the job is "get us rich". The CEO can do a lot of things regarding the company direction, but it has to match the shareholders goals. Generally, if it doesn't make profit short term or long term, it is unacceptable, and here, Jack Dorsey essentially wants to kill Twitter as a company, so of course he can't do that.…

Post by viridian » Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 1:02 PM UTC

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For those scared of all the links, here's a simple summary from someone who runs a server with an instance of one of these applications. * ActivityPub is just an open, flexible protocol for sharing content * The fediverse is a nice, human friendly way to describe all the various services using activitypub to talk back and forth to each other. The value in this is that these projects are diverse, it's not all twitter…

> Mastodon is in a constant state of chasing new, usually niche or controversial features which have led to a lot of bloat For those of us who haven't been following Mastodon closely, can you list some of these features? (My own point of view is that in communication products, like in programming languages, creeping featuritis can be a symptom of poor overall design.)

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 1:05 PM UTC

kilroy123 wrote: post #195

kidsil wrote: post #131

Reading this conversation reminded me of something Steve Jobs once said: "Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again"

While I believe this deeply. Putting really smart people into a room to work on big things is optimal.