Elon Musk

it’s impossible to evaluate anyone’s performance

this is categorically false, cmon.

Well, impossible for nontechnical managers, which is the only kind I have

If I talk enough I think everyone assumes I’m doing a good job

i see, well then, you have a bad org structure, on the other hand, that might work in your favor

you're telling me!

i'm out of work and need a job, hire me as your technical boss, I promise I won't evaluate you on lines of code committed

Sadly I lack this authority

BREAKING: @elonmusk says he plans to find someone to replace him as acting CEO of Twitter

— Stock Talk Weekly (@stocktalkweekly) November 16, 2022

some personal news:

ehhh not quite so BREAKING really: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/16/23462668/elon-musk-trial-testimony-twitter-tesla-ceo-technoking

stock comp at private twitter is a solved problem at spacex. they organize private sales twice a year iirc.

the problem from the recipients pov is: it's difficult to value the stock, and even if you assign a high value to it they pay extremely poorly relative to the public tech industry.

and yes, the least experienced people he's firing earn 300k/year, and the managers and senior staff ics are closer to $1m, and they will get a 20% bump by moving employers, and they will also get severance if they click no. i think he fundamentally misunderstands his bargaining position.

found out this morning that they hired back literally the worst engineer i worked with at twitter. he wasn't an asshole. just he was incredibly slow and needed constant prodding to do anything, and this was well documented in his perf reviews, which they would have access to. this is what they've been reduced to.

tip o the cap to genius management

first time he's ever been funny and i dont think he meant to be pic.twitter.com/5vYdvePtLo

— barbarism critic (@SxarletRed) November 16, 2022

I posted this when i herd Elon musk was acquiring twitter wishing him all the best i dont think there is anything to be afraid of cheers pic.twitter.com/t4MVrpi9mz

— gerald stratford (@geraldstratfor3) November 16, 2022

does musk have to succeed at twtr, for example?

Well, he has to pay a billion a year in interest until he does...

does he have more billions than he has years of life expectancy though? it's like citizen Kane

“You’re right. I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I’ll have to close this place in 60 years.”

Elon Musk could be chilling in a $100,000,000 mansion right now, getting massaged by 100 women, as a team of private chefs prepares him a 5-star meal! Instead @elonmusk is literally sleeping at Twitter HQ and working his butt off daily to improve the world.

— Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888) November 16, 2022

Genuinely interested to know how you get massaged by 100 women

This tweet tells a story in fewer words than "For sale: baby shoes. Never worn."

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— Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888) November 17, 2022

Metaverse

Genuinely interested to know how you get massaged by 100 women

shifts

the issue was does elon have to "succeed at twtr" for his break-it-by-smashing-the-tech-layer model to look better than it looks risky -- and i think "succeed" has a much lower bar in that question (tho he may yet not clear it)

Wonder if Musk will eventually end up like this guy, who existence I only heard about last week.

What on earth did I just read.https://t.co/Nar5R0HiMJ

— New Left EViews (@NewLeftEViews) November 16, 2022

SBF seems both smarter and more borked, by his own delusions and by the world catching up with them (slowly then quickly)

i want elon to crash and burn since his japes already have a bodycount but i can also see him wobbling thru to the other end in effect unscathed and never really confronted with a reckoning he understands as being a reckoning

Musk's folly here feels a little like say someone obscenely rich who doesn't know anything about coffee bought Starbucks and poured all of their coffee in the street and then told all of the Starbucks employees to double time it on inventing something sorta like coffee (optionally beverage-centric even) but better (maybe a product where, whenever the new owner of Starbucks isn't around, all the consumers of nu-Starbucks should be asking 'where's Poochie?') or they're out on their asses, is what it feels a little like. Just why. What is money when the person with the most of it decides to use his to put himself in the center of a third-rate Marx Brothers rip-off that ends with a static shot of the Groucho stand-in pissing into his own face for twelve solid minutes.

i have to say this post lost me

Agreed.

that Matt Wallace tweet is so deranged, not just in the implication that women are falling over themselves to get a piece of this freak but also in the idea that people like this are driven by hedonism and not spite. dude is just like Trump, he needs people to tell him what a good little boy he is 24/7

but also that he's cool like poochie

which is not actually a trump failing (in new low bar news)

where is Poochie tho

Also Musk should be louder, angrier and have access to a time machine

Then again, there must be someone willing to take $300k for being the least experienced. Probably easier to find if they can wfh and live outside the Bay Area, though.

Genuinely interested to know how you get massaged by 100 women

shifts

first you need 100 of these

https://i.imgur.com/izJW0Vt.png

You might have regrets, but at least you’ll never have this guy’s regrets pic.twitter.com/wh1b3uJohm

— Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll) November 16, 2022

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/17/23464351/whatsapp-business-directory-brazil-mexico-indonesia-uk

lol whatsapp is launching a feature that's similar to offering from the one company Elon actually started in the 90s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DRju2sOusI

Can't believe I'm saying this, but if your account got locked in the last hour for retweeting my post about Elon Musk, DM me. (Others have DM'd me directly.) pic.twitter.com/pK4wGyRCpV

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 17, 2022

Scoop: I am hearing far fewer than expected devs hit "yes".

Elon sent out an email relaxing remote working from the former draconian policy.

I'm hearing he is having meetings w top engineers to convince them to stay.

Sounds like playing hardball does not work. Ofc it doesn't. https://t.co/VrPEn4IwBG

— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) November 17, 2022

Maybe the collective outrage over Ticketmaster cancelling the public ticket sales for the Taylor Swift tour will give enough of a pre-World Cup stress test.

how can he be so bad at this is so much worse than should be possible

"From my larger group of 50 people, 10 are staying, 40 are taking the severance. Elon set up meetings with a few who plan to quit."

I don't blame people quitting. They've been offered intimidation, ever-changing policies the last minute, long hours, and an ultimatum.

— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) November 17, 2022

Who could have predicted this?

The richest man in the world now has to beg blue-haired nerds to keep submitting pull requests. And they’re just going to be like “you know I’ve been meaning to take a pottery class, it’s time.” Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

crazy that people didnt jump at the chance to take a much worse job than they can get anywhere else

It's nice to see pampered, overpaid programmers getting to play the victim in a media narrative for once.

Maybe it's just me but it feels like implicitly whittling your workforce down to employees motivated by punishments from daddy isn't the most efficient way to run a company.