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Exactly. This comes off as a totally unhinged and immature rant, unbecoming of the CEO of a company that likely has a 8 or 9 figure revenue.

I didn’t know (or really care) about this battle, but I’ve always passively seen Matt as one of the insightful grandfathers of the blogging era, having insights from the observations from his perch.

This blog post erased that.

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Something about these CEOs becoming or at least showing in public how unhinged they are. We’ve had quite a few in the last couple years. Almost like they think it’s cool.

>I’ve always passively seen Matt as one of the insightful grandfathers of the blogging era.

I've always felt he was an asshole but could never ground that to a concrete observation. Now I'm certain of it.

He's not an asshole, he's just "post-economic"

What does this mean ? That he doesn't have to care about earning a living any more, and so he's acting like... an asshole ?

In a Slack channel, "post-economic" was the term he used to describe his financial situation as a justification for his actions. So, yes?

https://x.com/sereedmedia/status/1839394786622722432?s=46

Dang, what an ass.

People don't have to make a living and now show who they really are

> I didn’t know (or really care) about this battle

Then why comment on it?

I mentioned it’s because I have held Matt Mullenweg in higher regard as someone who’s been insightful about the evolution of the web.

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