Post AQPdFzYFl4XP3S3tXU by sneak@s.sneak.berlin
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(DIR) Post #AQ2U7daQAicqOKwHom by sneak@s.sneak.berlin
2022-11-27T19:44:11Z
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i think elon musk is generally doing a good job of running the companies he runs, and i think he will do a good job with twitter, as well. it's clear twitter was massively mismanaged and was slowly evaporating as a business due to sustained and terminal unprofitability.
(DIR) Post #AQ6njoWUdKw14nrJdQ by surfingalot@mastodon.social
2022-11-29T21:42:48Z
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@sneak when you talk to people actually working at elon companies its yikes land all over on engineering decisons. It might be a USA type thing although, where there is so much bad but one or two rare essentials make up for it.Seriously concerned for their infra in 6 month from now with how many people they let go.
(DIR) Post #AQEWfKgJUvaNPTPQWm by sneak@s.sneak.berlin
2022-12-03T15:09:18Z
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@surfingalot i'm sure some part of that is elon-specific and some part of that is that most startups that are aggressively trying to seek profitability have "yikes land" in a scary amount of areas.
(DIR) Post #AQEp8ZOffCOyccFRUe by surfingalot@mastodon.social
2022-12-03T18:36:12Z
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@sneak the difference between a startup and twitter is twitter is a huge castle and startups are appropriately sized for their staffing level. Its worse to have to ‘maintain the castle’ with %70 less staff than it is to be a startup with an equal staffing level cutting corners. What elon is doing is also pretty bad even for startup management. He reminds me of a kid deleting random files in system32 because he doesnt even understand what they are for and borking his OS.
(DIR) Post #AQF7QFSsJ9fFBsnHSy by sneak@s.sneak.berlin
2022-12-03T22:00:36Z
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@surfingalot twitter.com still works fine, citation needed
(DIR) Post #AQJ8JCICa3oZuaqKDg by surfingalot@mastodon.social
2022-12-05T20:29:47Z
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@sneak this comes from personal experience in a similar situation. It will take a while for it to become more and more noticeable, like a car you stop doing maintenance for. You can start to see signs of it with more random stuff breaking already.
(DIR) Post #AQOjMYWv1kCVqJzVKa by sneak@s.sneak.berlin
2022-12-08T13:18:36Z
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@surfingalot that assumes that he will not be hiring better replacements. given what we have seen with tesla (scale ramp, quality issues improving, semi, cybertruck), spacex (starship, starlink, space lasers), i do not think this assumption holds true. i imagine that the elon field generator is sufficient to attract the few dozens with clue that are required to maintain twitter at present. i also imagine that at least some of them are still around in the org.
(DIR) Post #AQOjP74jYj89Yx1jyS by sneak@s.sneak.berlin
2022-12-08T13:19:09Z
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@surfingalot one reason i want to be more rich is to be able to hire world class recruiters.
(DIR) Post #AQPGhSNCPTj1Jh1DaC by surfingalot@mastodon.social
2022-12-08T19:31:48Z
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@sneak recruiting for what? From my experience most recruiters are more facilitators and lead gen, the sale is still up to the company themself
(DIR) Post #AQPdFzYFl4XP3S3tXU by sneak@s.sneak.berlin
2022-12-08T23:44:56Z
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@surfingalot well at the very least people who can make space lasers work
(DIR) Post #AQh8rWbaEDaUY9Jc92 by surfingalot@mastodon.social
2022-12-16T18:11:27Z
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@sneak IMO good recruiting comes from having an effort that attracts the space laser people in the first place.