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> Musk has admitted he doesn't understand people, is a self-confessed troll & edgelord and and Tesla's culture seems less than ideal. So lacks any of the qualifications I see as being needed to run something like Twitter.

That's why he's perfect for this task. Most decision-makers feel intense scrutiny and tip toe around things that cause backlash, especially things that threaten the status quo.

When you're oblivious to how people will react to your vision, you're more able to follow through and make it to the other side.




What does "the other side" look like in this case?


Just glancing at his feed, Elon seems to talk about spam bots, free speech, making the extreme left and extreme right equally unhappy, and shadow banning. Sounds like he wants more fairness and transparency in how Twitter moderates content.


Unfortunately that depends on his personal definitions of "extreme left", "extreme right", and "free speech."


"extreme left" and "extreme right" are pretty widely agreed on by anyone who's not part of one or the other.


If I am on Twitter's Trust and Safety team, I'm sweating bullets today.


They should all be looking for choice B companies. I suspect there will be a mass firing/exodus for anything involving security or feed algorithm teams.


This sort of thinking is how wars and genocides get started. Being decisive and following through on execution is an important skill, but ignoring other stakeholders’ opinions has downsides that are best not ignored.




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