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Re: Twitter at 1am on a Friday

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Post by giraffe_lady »

hotpotamus wrote: post #19

Honestly, I like the picture of the new owner coming in and having engineers whiteboard the systems out to him and start getting up to speed with the company. It does have a nice feeling of espirit de corps to it. If he had started with that instead of fire and fury and a lame sink joke, he wouldn't have tarnished his image and the company so much.

Twitter is a mature tech platform that routinely onboards people at all levels of technical experience into every part of itself. There's no way they don't have probably several entire programs for getting people up to speed on how it all works. Possibly even a few full time dedicated people working only on that, actually. At least before he fired them anyway.

This is nothing but ego and hubris still.

Re: Twitter at 1am on a Friday

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Post by philosopher1234 »

grepLeigh wrote: post #60
philosopher1234 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are born dependent and vulnerable. If our parents are cruel we contort ourselves to love them anyways, so that they will keep feeding us. Then we go into the world and find we are still contorted. The world seems to be full of these people. It’s hard to see a way out.

Therapy can help break this mindset and cycle. Highly recommended if you feel stuck, or like your past is shaping your future in a way you don't want. Therapy is like having a personal trainer for your mental fitness. https://twitter.com/Theholisticpsyc/status/15941596755867934...

I agree. psychoanalysis has saved my life.

But on a national scale? If therapy is the solution, we are sorely lacking in therapists.

Re: Twitter at 1am on a Friday

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Post by bogomipz »

jsnell wrote: post #11

It's pretty amazing when you think about it. Even given Musk's erratic behavior in the previous weeks, it would have been hard to predict something like this. At a short notice summon the handful of engineers who survived the purges to the office at 2pm on a Friday and to bring 10 screenshots of code they've written "for review". With that implicit threat, have them wait until 6pm. Then keep them around until 1am to…

>"At a short notice summon the handful of engineers who survived the purges to the office at 2pm on a Friday and to bring 10 screenshots of code they've written "for review".

I wasn't able to read many of the collapsed comments since I don't have a teamblind account. Is that actually the context of this picture then?

Re: Twitter at 1am on a Friday

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Post by yongjik »

scarab92 wrote: post #30
mike503 wrote: post #18

As the comment says, it would be interesting to interact with the richest person on earth. Short of that, I have no idea why anyone would think it's fun or anything to be in that atmosphere. He could change direction on a whim and make you redundant in a second.

I guess different people want different things, but I would have flown across the country to be in that room at 1am. A startup sized team working on a platform with twitters scale for a boss with capital and a willingness to consider new ideas? Once in a lifetime opportunity.

> A startup sized team working on a platform with twitters scale for a boss with capital and a willingness to consider new ideas?

Willingness to consider his new ideas. Not your new ideas. He's the idea man, your job is to implement it. And if you tell him why the idea may not work as intended, you're fired.

Re: Twitter at 1am on a Friday

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Post by pasttense01 »

wskish wrote: post #50
deanCommie wrote: post #43

Of all the scenarios with Twitter in the last several months where people talk past each other, this is the one I am most confused by. You got startup CEOs (not just Elon Musk brownnosers) talking about how some of the most innovative things get built at startups. Which is true! Big, world-changing ideas, don't get built 9-5. And especially if you have some competitive advantage, you need to rush to market, to beat t…

> so that he can create the American Weechat, or whatever he's got in mind. What if what he has in mind is attempting to undo the negative effects that social networks have had on our society and democracy and instead attempt to rebuild this particular network in a way that can have a positive effect on society? It seems like that is a technological possibility and also something he could plausibly be interested in.

Elon believes in "free speech" and these unmoderated free speech networks rapidly become filled with toxic garbage.

Re: Twitter at 1am on a Friday

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Post by HaZeust »

wskish wrote: post #57
tomlockwood wrote: post #2

Looking at that diagram, and thinking the person who needed it just bought the company for 44 billion dollars, is bewildering.

I see that whiteboard as a mechanism to help build a shared mental model for all assembled. Everyone there has seen some previous unknown revision of architectural diagrams, and has their own partial model of the system. Due to the urgency at hand, they all need to have a crisp shared model of the important parts, down to the naming of things.

That's a hell of a hand-wave. But for Twitter's sake, I hope you're right.

Re: Twitter at 1am on a Friday

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Post by nickthegreek »

wskish wrote: post #50
deanCommie wrote: post #43

Of all the scenarios with Twitter in the last several months where people talk past each other, this is the one I am most confused by. You got startup CEOs (not just Elon Musk brownnosers) talking about how some of the most innovative things get built at startups. Which is true! Big, world-changing ideas, don't get built 9-5. And especially if you have some competitive advantage, you need to rush to market, to beat t…

> so that he can create the American Weechat, or whatever he's got in mind. What if what he has in mind is attempting to undo the negative effects that social networks have had on our society and democracy and instead attempt to rebuild this particular network in a way that can have a positive effect on society? It seems like that is a technological possibility and also something he could plausibly be interested in.

Pretty sure he has stated he wants an American WeChat.

Re: Twitter at 1am on a Friday

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Post by giraffe_lady »

wskish wrote: post #50
deanCommie wrote: post #43

Of all the scenarios with Twitter in the last several months where people talk past each other, this is the one I am most confused by. You got startup CEOs (not just Elon Musk brownnosers) talking about how some of the most innovative things get built at startups. Which is true! Big, world-changing ideas, don't get built 9-5. And especially if you have some competitive advantage, you need to rush to market, to beat t…

> so that he can create the American Weechat, or whatever he's got in mind. What if what he has in mind is attempting to undo the negative effects that social networks have had on our society and democracy and instead attempt to rebuild this particular network in a way that can have a positive effect on society? It seems like that is a technological possibility and also something he could plausibly be interested in.

What if what if what if. What about his actions leads you to believe he's more capable of that than the thousands of people who were already working on it? If that were easy to do it would have been done, social media companies are full of people who care very deeply about this exact issue and who are also not absolute fucking neophytes at understanding and managing the constraints of a large social media network.

And what about the positive effects that twitter was already having? I'm part of something adjacent to and with overlap into the canadian disability rights movements; they are devastated by what's happening with twitter and widely considered it to be a unique and unprecedentedly powerful space for community and organization for them. It's not all shitposts and fascism you know.

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