Post AV9RvAoENC4s4TdypU by Vrimj@mastodon.sandwich.net
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(DIR) Post #AV9Rv8Q3G7Y2euJdrc by Vrimj@mastodon.sandwich.net
2023-04-29T15:33:10Z
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I think it is interesting and says something about tech in general that even Elon understood he had to hire rocket scientists and car manufacturing engineers and neuroscientists for those projects but he doesn't appear to have hired a single expert in communication or social dynamics when taking over Twitter, the same appears to be true for every other newly founded social network where I have taken a look at the leadership.
(DIR) Post #AV9Rv9g2a9vqYmnvQO by Vrimj@mastodon.sandwich.net
2023-04-29T15:35:37Z
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There is a very specific sort of thing here that I don't have language for but I have noticed. People who work with things respect other people with expertise in how to work on things.Often they do not see skills with people as real unless they are deeply abstracted and not really about people anymore but the things that make up people, eg neuroscience.
(DIR) Post #AV9RvAoENC4s4TdypU by Vrimj@mastodon.sandwich.net
2023-04-29T15:37:39Z
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I notice this in my role because it is between law and people so I get a variety of reactions from this group depending on if they see my job as being about law or about people, and sometimes that shifts as their understanding shifts.
(DIR) Post #AV9mpwSWOgz99dpuJE by zompus@phire.place
2023-04-29T15:35:06Z
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@Vrimj When STEM ignores the humanities
(DIR) Post #AV9mpx7Hx7axC4uSqu by Vrimj@mastodon.sandwich.net
2023-04-29T15:41:45Z
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@zompus I mean I am not even asking for the humanities here, just social scientists!I can give 2006 a pass because there just were not that many experts in online communication yet, but now there is a real discipline developing here and it just doesn't seem to be a thing people building networks of people think they need.They don't model the people using it as part of the system.
(DIR) Post #AV9mpxs5991dXCnpmy by zompus@phire.place
2023-04-29T16:37:31Z
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@Vrimj If they don't care about the user experience, then they are not building a social network, they are building another data collection and advertising machine.
(DIR) Post #AV9mrtQEew3KJahI2q by jcutting@social.vivaldi.net
2023-04-29T19:47:13Z
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@VrimjMy experience consulting for executives taught me that they got to where they were by dehumanizing or otherwise reducing people (labor and/or customers) into cogs that power their wealth. They are often incapable of turning off these simplified personas that they created for the "others," so it would never occur to them that they would need to consult with expert advice in this field.
(DIR) Post #AV9mru6m6m52RWbGLo by Vrimj@mastodon.sandwich.net
2023-04-29T19:53:25Z
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@jcutting I know what you mean And that is a real division too.
(DIR) Post #AV9n56Z56elQqC8Q2S by edgeoforever@mastodon.world
2023-04-29T21:40:15Z
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@Vrimj you failed to consider the fact that the quite obvious design for Twitter was to disable it.🤷♀️
(DIR) Post #AVE2JKsCyq0JDVAHOi by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-05-01T22:49:41Z
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@jcutting> My experience consulting for executives taught me that they got to where they were by dehumanizing or otherwise reducing people (labor and/or customers) into cogs that power their wealthCorporate hierarchies structurally reward this. The most successful are often actual sociopaths and the rest habitually behave like they are. Chetan Druve wrote an excellent book about why this happens called 'Why Your Boss is Programmed to be a Dictator'.@Vrimj
(DIR) Post #AVE2rtHnXbDDn9bxfU by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-05-01T22:55:56Z
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@Vrimj> he doesn't appear to have hired a single expert in communication or social dynamics when taking over TwitterNot only that but the ones that already worked the were among the first people he started firing. Pure hubris.