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Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization
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Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s the best part about recognizing that people of all different races, genders and creeds as people. They have exactly the same capacity to be shitty as anyone else. If this was a white executive this wouldn’t even move the needle but a black CEO is naturally held to a higher standard. Progress is measured by having their shitty behaviors reflect on them as an individual instead of their class.
Your comment seems to imply that anyone taking issue with Davis' racism is racist themselves, because they wouldn't otherwise notice if Davis were white. Please let me know if my interpretation of your comment is inaccurate, but if it isn't, then that's a pretty horrific rhetorical device that you're employing. Personally, I noticed this part because — according to the article — Davis was outspoken about diversity, a…
Oh no, you can absolutely rake this guy over the coals for being a racist asshole.
Here's the problem:
> He is Black and Asian, and was the first Black executive at Twitter to report directly to the CEO.
Does this mention that he is outspoken about diversity? Or that he was brought on to promote diversity in the company in any way more than his existence? Nope, it's just a hey this guy is black and that is notable.
So this seems really out place.
> Since they've clearly gone for the "diversity" angle here, I decided to read more[0] about Davis.
Why does him being black and casually mentioning it in his bio warrant you digging into his background? Would you have done the same if it said he was the first first generation college graduate? Obviously not.
So this guy absolutely deserves to be criticized because he is outspoken about diversity while being racist. The crucial point is that this criticism is that is has nothing to do with his own race. But you only even thought to look for that because they mentioned he's black. There are a million ways this guy could be a terrible executive worthy of criticism but you definitely had one particular way in mind when you went digging.
Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization
#43Implicit in all these diversity pushes is a fixed-sized pie mentality. In that world-view, the only way to increase diversity is to replace white[1] executives with non-white ones. I'm not keen on the long term prospects of a company that is making its senior leadership hiring decisions based on a fixed-sized pie mindset. Frankly, while I'm not a fan of the racial discrimination aspect either, the lack of a growth mindset is what really predicts failure.
[1] The status of South and East Asians isn't entirely clear to me here. In my time in big tech I never noticed a shortage of South Asian senior leaders, so I suppose maybe they're no longer considered diverse? As for East Asians, every single one I've personally worked with is a big fan of meritocracy. Perhaps that's because they believe they will do well under those rules.
Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization
#44I know little about how Twitter works, but it's interesting that a new leader would make such sweeping changes just a few days into the job. Usually, you would want at least a little time viewing and understanding the org from your new job/perspective before changing anything major. It sort of implies a CEO decision coming from solely a CTO perspective.
Scott Adams talks about how it’s a common tactic amongst CEO’s. The new Twitter CEO has also worked at the company for over a decade so it’s probably been planned for a while.
>Scott Adams talks about how it’s a common tactic amongst CEO’s.
The comic writer?
Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your comment seems to imply that anyone taking issue with Davis' racism is racist themselves, because they wouldn't otherwise notice if Davis were white. Please let me know if my interpretation of your comment is inaccurate, but if it isn't, then that's a pretty horrific rhetorical device that you're employing. Personally, I noticed this part because — according to the article — Davis was outspoken about diversity, a…
Oh no, you can absolutely rake this guy over the coals for being a racist asshole. Here's the problem: > He is Black and Asian, and was the first Black executive at Twitter to report directly to the CEO. Does this mention that he is outspoken about diversity? Or that he was brought on to promote diversity in the company in any way more than his existence? Nope, it's just a hey this guy is black and that is notable. S…
I can't speak the original commenter, but what would have prompted my concern is this sentence:
> The company had touted him as a hard-charging leader who would detoxify the platform, but he was also criticized by some employees for what they said was a blunt, aggressive management style.
"Blunt" and "aggressive" are very often used as euphemisms for "rude and offensive, but in a way the author finds socially acceptable".
Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization
#46The CEO has been with twitter for 10 years and been CTO and actively involved at top-level decisions for quite some time. This isn't some sudden decision pulled out of a hat. Not sure why some commenters seem to have such knee-jerk reactions to this change. Most of it seems to be sensible. The CEO came up through the ranks from starting off as an individual contributor at Twitter. He probably has a good grasp for wha…
They were both fired because they were very expensive and a net negative on the company. Dantley has an enormous ego, and that ego led to a bunch of fluff PR pieces commissioned where he bashed other employees which started a civil war. The guy who did the Google comic for years went to Twitter and made a comic about the civil war and HR accused him of racism (the comic was not racist) and made him take it down. Mont…
Good to know. I knew Parag (the CEO) a bit from college (we both graduated the same year) and he was a very nice, humble and ridiculously sharp guy. Not at all surprised to see him rise to CEO and honestly, it feels like a much much better pick than your traditional MBA old-boys-club career CEO. Time will tell but I found it refreshing to see someone immensely technical (Parag won Gold in the international Physics Olympiad as a high schooler) being promoted from within and making it all the way to the top.
Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization
#47Implicit in all these diversity pushes is a fixed-sized pie mentality. In that world-view, the only way to increase diversity is to replace white[1] executives with non-white ones. I'm not keen on the long term prospects of a company that is making its senior leadership hiring decisions based on a fixed-sized pie mindset. Frankly, while I'm not a fan of the racial discrimination aspect either, the lack of a growth mi…
> The status of South and East Asians isn't entirely clear to me here.
You must have heard the term "white-adjacent".
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#48Boy is for-profit operation a downer. We get so much from Twitter, but of course, that doesn't make enough money, so the march towards locking it down into a closed pipeline of corporate marketing/ads/curation/tracking for the product (us) at the expense of whatever made twitter great continues on. Like, my third party Twitter clients have less and less functionality as Twitter removes public API features. My ability…
Turns out smart people who do hard work providing a massive public platform want to be paid for it. Who knew.
Well then don’t bait and switch.
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Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization
#50Boy is for-profit operation a downer. We get so much from Twitter, but of course, that doesn't make enough money, so the march towards locking it down into a closed pipeline of corporate marketing/ads/curation/tracking for the product (us) at the expense of whatever made twitter great continues on. Like, my third party Twitter clients have less and less functionality as Twitter removes public API features. My ability…
Turns out smart people who do hard work providing a massive public platform want to be paid for it. Who knew.
There is no evidence these changes are instigated by regular employees. This sort of stuff is usual driven by the the owners with larger stakes.