I worked at Facebook when we had 200 employees
I’ve never understood why FB needs 20,000 employees. And less so the 70,000 employees Meta has now
@elonmusk’s Twitter layoffs are appropriate
Unfortunate, but appropriate
These businesses just don’t require that many people
My politics: I’m basically a Bill Clinton era Democrat, circa 1999
Which, by todays standards, places me on the “right”
Balanced budget, strong borders, skill-based immigration, pro-technology, socially liberal, unapologetically capitalist
I’ve stood still, you sprinted left
Totally unacceptable that the new iPhone can’t withstand an angle grinder, rotary sander and being smashed with a hammer
What happened to quality control? 😤
I say privatize it, and better yet: let us opt-out of receiving physical mail.
I bet 30%+ of Americans would gladly opt-out. Send us an email, a text, a phone call, a carrier pigeon. Anything but physical mail.
Alongside federal funding, the USPS gets a lot of its funding
I once met Alex Honnold on a flight in Switzerland
We chatted for about an hour. As we picked up our bags he asked me: “what do you do for a living?”
“I invest in startups”
He replied: “Isn’t that incredibly risky?”
I strongly agree with this point, but boy is it unpopular 😅😂
Let’s give Congresspeople $2M a year, Senators $6M, and Presidents $40M
We’d likely save money on-net. Because now qualified people want to apply for those jobs
Politicians should make significantly more money.
The incentives are all wrong.
Pay the President $40mil/year and see the candidates.
No need for backroom deals or bribery.
Even anonymized, I’d never post private texts like this from a job candidate
Not everything has to be fodder for content. This was a polite decline, and I’m sure the person who sent it doesn’t feel great being put on blast like this
If Elon winds up pulling this off & builds a leaner, more profitable & innovative Twitter… a lot of tech journalists’ #RIPTwitter tweets from tonight are going to look pretty silly
But they won’t care. They’ll be too busy being faux-outraged at the next thing