Great column. And here’s my pile-on: Musk’s spoiling-for-a-fight Twitter responses to his critics reinforce just how petty and uninformed the guy is. It’s not a good look for a man in his position as head of a major communications forum to be so thin-skinned he feels he has to directly reply to his many critics. First of all, talk is …
Great column. And here’s my pile-on: Musk’s spoiling-for-a-fight Twitter responses to his critics reinforce just how petty and uninformed the guy is. It’s not a good look for a man in his position as head of a major communications forum to be so thin-skinned he feels he has to directly reply to his many critics. First of all, talk is cheap. So anything he says is going to be offset by all of his mistakes in judgment, which keep piling up day by day, hour by hour. They add to his lack of credibility and naïveté--again, traits that don’t inspire confidence in advertisers, the public, or employees he “didn’t fire” but are being begged to come back and do the work he naively didn’t believe needed to be done. The whole thing is a morality tale for clueless rich dudes whose press clippings suggested could do no wrong. But here Musk is, screwing up badly, and it’s hard to see this turning out well. Except maybe somebody will start a better Twitter. And Musk will buy a one-way ticket to Mars.
Great column. And here’s my pile-on: Musk’s spoiling-for-a-fight Twitter responses to his critics reinforce just how petty and uninformed the guy is. It’s not a good look for a man in his position as head of a major communications forum to be so thin-skinned he feels he has to directly reply to his many critics. First of all, talk is cheap. So anything he says is going to be offset by all of his mistakes in judgment, which keep piling up day by day, hour by hour. They add to his lack of credibility and naïveté--again, traits that don’t inspire confidence in advertisers, the public, or employees he “didn’t fire” but are being begged to come back and do the work he naively didn’t believe needed to be done. The whole thing is a morality tale for clueless rich dudes whose press clippings suggested could do no wrong. But here Musk is, screwing up badly, and it’s hard to see this turning out well. Except maybe somebody will start a better Twitter. And Musk will buy a one-way ticket to Mars.