Nah, he’d probably make Fox more profitable than it already is. There’s no need for someone to control viewpoints on Fox; that already happens.
It gets better.
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“How does go forth and multiply sound?”
It’s quite amazing to watch, I’ve never seen a big company fall apart so quickly when it’s not due to bankruptcy or a financial scandal.
Just one man taking over and trying to change the culture and workforce too quickly.
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The history that will be lost. Check the time stamp…
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I was in Afghanistan when that happened. We copped rockets every night for a week afterwards.
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“Sure, I’d like a ride on one of those rockets when we get back to the moon. Deal?”
Took me a moment.
There is a lot of contemporary cultural value in twitter, that will be lost unless archived effectively.
Following the cultural trends which occurred from its beginning to end would be an interesting anthropological exercise in a decade or two
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Look at me, I’m edgy and clever by pretending to be self-aware of how badly I’ve farked up.
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I learnt about this in Stargate. If you have a big spaceship and you want to change direction, you have to do so slowly. If you try to do it too fast it gets torn apart by its own inertia. Apparently that’s the same with a big company. If you try to make massive changes too quickly, things start to fall apart.
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Also the same if you want to move a tree. You gotta do it slowly.
Nemawashi is your friend. I’m gardening and in business.
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Excellent.
And in Babylon 5 I learned the dangers of acting too soon with limited information.
From Blakes 7 I learned that fanaticism can have disastrous consequences.
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You brought it up before, but I can’t help worrying about blowback effects on SpaceX, Tesla, etc.
They won’t be directly affected if Twitter goes down the toilet.
But Musk is burning his reputation and credibility at a really startling pace, and that’s good for neither of those companies given how closely they’re aligned to him personally. I still think that Musk is likely to lose control over Tesla in particular, given how heavily he borrowed against it to buy Twitter. And to be honest … that might be a good thing for Tesla. What Tesla really needs is to professionalise at this point. It doesn’t need cowboy startup engineering culture any more. It needs to fix its quality control issues and its workplace safety etc issues. Boring, discipline, process sort of stuff that Musk isn’t good at. Cos Tesla has a lead in the EV space right now, but all the big car manufacturers are coming for them and a Toyota EV is going to have a lot fewer rough edges than a Tesla one.
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Serious money wants serious oversight.
Relate this to The Expanse or perhaps Space 1999 please, for easy intelligibility.