Monday, December 19, 2022

I.E., The Emperor Never Had Clothes

Here's the Musk playbook: Enter a field with very little competition. Claim that your new company will solve a massive, global problem or achieve a seemingly impossible goal. Raise money from a fervent group of true believers and keep them on the hook with flashy, half-baked product ideas. Suck up billions from the government. Underpay, undervalue, and overwork your employees. Repeat.
You left out: “Never fulfill one outlandish promise you make.”
There is no pivot in which Musk suddenly becomes serious and starts acting like a normal executive. The frenzied, callous, throwing-ideas-at-the-wall boss from hell you see on Twitter is the one people actually get in Musk world. It's always been that way. Somehow, during a bull market, in a decade when tech was on top of the world and he was the king of it — that style worked. Now it won't.
Ah, there you go!

Also, Trump happened, lowering the tolerance for narcissistic assholes who really don’t accomplish anything:

 Concluding Unscientific Postscript:
And all that was before the debacle of the Twitter policy that was then wasn't, in the space of less than 24 hours. How’s that working out for you? Lawyers make bad rules! Would-be engineers with no training (no degree) and no real knowledge, make good rules! Until those rules run into the laws, which are real rules!

It's a wonder tall trees aren't laying down...
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