Before he bought Twitter, Musk remarked, “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.”
Before he bought Twitter, Musk remarked, “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.”
Is he though? He’s been successful, sure. But I feel like he hires smart people and then rides on their coattails.
I thought he was smart as well - until he started commenting on a field I know (software). And now he seems to just be confidently ignorant.
Yeah, the moment he talked about shutting down most of Twitter’s microservices in prod as if it was a genius idea, that’s when the illusion shattered for me.
Made me realize he’s really an idiot, it’s as if he’s trying to emulate the Pointy Haired Boss.
A lot of smart people tend to know a lot about some topics and be overconfident in others. Musk knows a lot about rocketry, but his software expertise is about 25 years out of date. He did write websites himself back in the zip2 days, but back in the 90s web development was a very different beast than it is today. I’m not that surprised that he went into Twitter thinking “it’s a website, I know this” and ended up being wrong.