Software demands more creative discipline than hardware, because so much discipline is baked into the nature of creating hardware. ( Today’s earlier story about Tesla fudging range estimates is purely dictated by software.) He doesn’t seem to listen to people who disagree with him, but he has to listen when physics disagrees. The immutable laws of physics push back against Musk’s unreasonable demands in ways that aren’t applicable to software. Problems but products that facilitate human connection andĬommunication require a different type of social-emotionalĪnother way to think about this (and I’m cribbing from something Ben Thompson said on Dithering this week) isn’t about Musk’s lack of empathy, but simply the nature of software itself. I’m now optimistically bullish on Threads, and I don’t think Threads would even exist if not for Musk buying and wrecking Twitter.Įlon has an exceptional talent for tackling hard physics-based The growth it saw after November never would have happened otherwise.
Mastodon was irrelevant pre-Musk-buying-Twitter.
And while I think Twitter under Musk is now far worse, he absolutely did shake things up, and the overall state of Twitter-like-services is today far, far better than it was before.
Twitter had ossified years ago - maybe a decade ago - and needed a drastic shake-up, but in the company’s culture and the product. Esther Crawford on Twitter, Before and After Musk ★Įsther Crawford (previously mentioned here, when she bragged about sleeping at work to meet an unnecessary deadline at Twitter), wrote a fascinating essay about her time at the company, before and after Musk’s acquisition.Īlthough I didn’t know much about Elon I was cautiously optimistic - I saw him as the guy who built incredible and enduringĬompanies like Tesla and SpaceX, so perhaps his private ownershipĬould shake things up and breathe new life into the company.Ĭrawford was inside the company, and I’m far outside it, but that’s exactly why I was optimistic about Twitter under Musk too.
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