Two years ago you published an essay that seemed to argue that criticism against Elon Musk was simply from “Haters,” jealous of his success.
In light of recent events, have you considered updating the essay?
In light of recent events, have you considered updating the essay?
Edit: Maybe the suspension will break PG's fanboy-ism, and he'll emerge humbler and wiser.
The different rates and ways that various types of information travels through media (both social and not) and gets distorted by it are fascinating and there's probably been some good books written on them...
In light of Musk fulfilling the predictions of his worst “haters,” maybe this merits clarifying the essay.
I have to say it’s surprising the the site hasn’t had downtime. Maybe that’s a testament to how resilient the previous engineers made things. I think most experienced engineers would agree that if you lost 75% of your company in the span of a month and a half, you’re going to lose critical institutional knowledge, and Twitter has a lot of moving parts. So kudos to Musk for winning that round of Russian roulette? At least so far.