I'd say two weeks is too few to establish a trend, especially since we don't know what is happening behind the scenes. All we have is articles published by media with huge incentive to destroy Elon's plan to "elevate citizen journalism."
Anyone who has followed Tesla or SpaceX for more than two years knows that Elon's companies will have their ups and downs due to their grand ambitions. What's different with Twitter is that its problems aren't pure tech problems and that Elon has made a series of asinine mistakes from the get-go that make you question his basic judgment about people and how to manage employees. He's pulled rabbits out of his hat before and he has the help of a lot of people in the tech world so there's always a chance. It's just that there's no indication that he's moving in the right direction. In fact, there are signs of the opposite happening. That's what's discouraging if you're a Tesla investor and need Elon to be at the top of his game. It feels like we're five minutes into a football game and we're already down three touchdowns after we've thrown three interceptions because we thought we could win by just throwing bombs.
Somehow this is still a good idea, even with the Tweet deleted. Screen captures in future always I guess.
If you got time to lean you got time to clean.
Sure its possible. But I don't know enough to agree "things are not currently going well with Twitter", for two reasons:
Critics don't understand the principle. Most people don't. Most companies don't, which is partly why Tesla and SpaceX are crushing their competitors.
When rockets were crashing at SpaceX, I’d say that things were not currently going well. Progress from failure I get. But the Christmas near bankruptcy with Tesla wasn’t things going well. Only the outcome can determine if those things were surmountable, and even then cannot acknowledge whether they were necessary. We don’t have the outcome yet, and won’t for some time.
Plus, there are good mistakes and bad mistakes. Making an engineering miscalculation or being too ambitious in your production expectations is one thing. Deciding to buy a company. Then suddenly deciding not to buy it, claiming an excessive number of bots. Then going to litigation over it. Then at the eleventh hour completely acquiescing and buying the company. Then implementing and canceling random policies all while posting emotional tweets. Well, it's up to each person to decide if these were good mistakes that are part of a positive iterative process, or not. Further, arguing that because Elon has something before means he must be able to do it again is definitely not first principles thinking, which Elon himself espouses. Past performance is not a guarantee of future performance. It's one thing to hope for the best, it's another to expect it in the face of the facts.
I agree that Elon's track record with running companies should earn him a little benefit of the doubt. But @Knightshade claims that this company is fundamentally different from all his others (including PayPal?) because it deals with human behavior, not physics and engineering (Tesla customers are not human? No engineers at Twitter?) and human behavior has no scientific laws that Elon can use to achieve his goal (Skinner's laws are not scientific?). So there: Elon's genius has clearly vanished or turned to insanity.
I agree that Elon's track record with running companies should earn him a little benefit of the doubt. But @Knightshade claims that this company is fundamentally different from all his others (including PayPal?) because it deals with human behavior, not physics and engineering (Tesla customers are not human? No engineers at Twitter?) and human behavior has no scientific laws that Elon can use to achieve his goal (Skinner's laws are not scientific?). So there: Elon's genius has clearly vanished or turned to insanity.
Maybe it has, but I'm willing to reserve judgment for more than 2 weeks before posting that assertion over and over. Good luck getting our resident Elon-haters to do that.
