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1884 points elorant | 3 comments | 23 Apr 24 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.857s | source
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Willish42 ◴[24 Apr 24 02:09 UTC] No.40139670[source]▶
> And in my next newsletter, I'm going to walk you through how a very specific kind of managerial mindset has poisoned Silicon Valley, making career failures unfathomably rich while your favorite tech products decay.

I look forward to this one as somebody with a personally vested interest!

More seriously, Ed Zitron's podcast Better Offline is great for those who enjoyed this article. I love his opinionated perspective even when I don't wholesale agree (though in this case I do), and I find him a breath of fresh air in tech journalism. I work in a ... similar company and find his perspective to be spot on about growth hacking degrading product health over time, and the baffling track record of many an SVP.

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exodust ◴[24 Apr 24 07:25 UTC] No.40141634[source]▶
A glowing endorsement, but deserved? Under "more like this" we find multiple hit-pieces by Zitron, hating on one man. You guessed it, Musk Bad Man.

Never heard of Zitron, but I won't be back. His bitterness is on verge of unhealthy obsession. Oddly word-stuffed rants, sounds like he spent ages constructing different ways to criticise Musk.

> "He has spent $44 billion in an attempt to make people love him only to be left with a very expensive way to make people angry at him every single day for the rest of his life."

So much hot air. "Fresh air of tech journalism," you say?

Another piece "Musk Is Dangerous To Society" I didn't read since the spoiler is kind of right there in the title!

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dpkirchner ◴[24 Apr 24 12:44 UTC] No.40143699[source]▶
Musk is objectively a bad man, though. Remember when he called someone a "pedo guy" because that someone dares to disagree with his proposal for saving trapped people? Inexcusable.
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1. CatWChainsaw ◴[24 Apr 24 23:52 UTC] No.40151423[source]▶
On the bright side, he got away with it because he managed to sell a court on the idea that it was just an endearing nickname, so now we can call also Musk a pedo guy without fear of legal reprisal.
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2. exodust ◴[25 Apr 24 05:02 UTC] No.40153626[source]▶
The court saw it for what it was. An immature spat between two grown men who should have known better. If your takeaway is that YOU can now use that slur against others, it doesn't say much about your position, which I presume is anchored to "MuskBadMan".
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3. CatWChainsaw ◴[25 Apr 24 18:50 UTC] No.40161500[source]▶
If you can't tell what either humor or snark is, you should get off the internet, baby doll.