[HN Gopher] Esther Crawford: "Now is a good time to open up a bit"
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       Esther Crawford: "Now is a good time to open up a bit"
        
       Author : ohjeez
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2023-07-26 20:54 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | jpwerty wrote:
       | Elon just personally reinstated a Twitter account that was banned
       | for posting screenshots of an infant being raped and murdered,
       | but it's nice to hear that this lady was the center of attention
       | once.
        
       | reducesuffering wrote:
       | Every section about the CEO just makes me think of Gavin Belson
       | from the Silicon Valley series, surrounding himself with "yes
       | men" and firing people who make him feel like he might be a
       | little wrong.
       | 
       | https://youtu.be/XAeEpbtHDPw?t=15
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       | https://youtu.be/30WTWkFe910?t=8
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       | https://youtu.be/30WTWkFe910?t=762
        
       | mydriasis wrote:
       | Awesome post with a lot of hard-earned wisdom. It reads like a
       | moment where a lot of "taking a step back to examine things" was
       | done.
       | 
       | > Most people were good at their jobs but it was nearly
       | impossible to fire poor performers -- instead they got shuffled
       | around to other teams because few managers had the will or
       | resources to figure out how to get them out.
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       | > Often it was a small cross-functional team of intrinsically
       | motivated people who made the biggest impact by challenging some
       | core assumption.
       | 
       | > I learned a ton from watching Elon up close - the good, the bad
       | and the ugly. His boldness, passion and storytelling is
       | inspiring, but his lack of process and empathy is painful.
       | 
       | And many, many more. Really spoken like someone clever, someone
       | with a lot of understanding, someone observant, and someone very,
       | very smart.
        
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