Elon Is Twitter's Chaos Monkey (opens in new tab)

> Elon somehow is able to cut through all that BS and ship a new feature in just a week to all his users. How? What does he know that the rest of the industry don't? I think he understands something that might sound obvious on the surface: Twitter is just a fucking website. Literally no one will die if they fuck up. Is that true? What if DM's or other private information gets leaked do to a code change? This could provide enough information to target individuals for murder depending on what the new info is.

Elon Musk had to sell $4 billion dollars in Tesla stock in order to keep Twitter afloat. I’m not disagreeing with the core premise of the article really, nor am I really challenging Musk’s genius! but Musk can say fuck you to everybody because he has fuck you money! If he is a genius it is is in understanding the whole context, not in the individual risks he takes.

> Elon somehow is able to cut through all that BS and ship a new feature in just a week to all his users. How? What does he know that the rest of the industry don't? I think he understands something that might sound obvious on the surface: Twitter is just a fucking website. Literally no one will die if they fuck up.

Sure if your company can survive without revenue or reputation, go for it! It’s just a fucking website.

Yes we need more bold leaders driving change, but if almost any other CEO had done this the company would be dead already.

Agreed that Elon is making Twitter iterate and ship much faster, but not sure the price he is paying in loss of "tribal knowledge" will be worth it at the other end.

The author does gloss over the fact that Twitter has FTC Consent & GDPR requirements to meet, which means it does have to slow down during feature development at the risk of fines.