I mean, he knows how to gut things he doesn’t think are important.
That’s not efficiency, that’s just doing less stuff. Efficiency is when you do the same stuff but with lower cost and the same outcomes. That’s not what musk does.
A better question would be do you have any examples of him actually creating efficiencies? I don’t mean this in a condescending way but he did do a great job with Tesla but basically no where else. Every time he goes out of his wheelhouse it seems to end in disaster? Honestly I don’t follow him but it’s impossible not to hear about him. So can you elaborate on what his successes were and how’d that translate into making the government more efficient?
As I said in other comment, he lowered Twitter expanses without actually lowering the quality of service quality (I don’t know if he lowered moderation for costs or personal control) .
I would preferred he do the costs minimizing measures more slowly, but I don’t think anyone can criticize the efficiency there.
And all of that while not knowing anything about how social media companies work or having previous experience.
I am saying all this as a person who use Mastodon and BlueSky instead of Twitter.
Most people who left Twitter left it because of Elon ego rather than the way he manages the company internally.
I think a lot of people would disagree with you about X. Objectively he bought the company for $44B and now it’s worth $9B that’s a huge loss. Most people attribute the decline to his “efficiency” measures. Basically losing all the good talent in his company causing a significant decline in users ( because of quality of service). His running of Twitter I think would be a better example of a failure.
That aside hypothetically even if X was doing well - How would the strategy / approach he used in a public company be good for government. These are two very different places?
His approach was essentially “If I don’t know what you do, you’re fired.” Failing to realize the flaw in “not knowing what someone does” is between his own two ears.
I mean, he knows how to gut things he doesn’t think are important.
That’s not efficiency, that’s just doing less stuff. Efficiency is when you do the same stuff but with lower cost and the same outcomes. That’s not what musk does.
Do you have any examples or references of this?
A better question would be do you have any examples of him actually creating efficiencies? I don’t mean this in a condescending way but he did do a great job with Tesla but basically no where else. Every time he goes out of his wheelhouse it seems to end in disaster? Honestly I don’t follow him but it’s impossible not to hear about him. So can you elaborate on what his successes were and how’d that translate into making the government more efficient?
As I said in other comment, he lowered Twitter expanses without actually lowering the quality of service quality (I don’t know if he lowered moderation for costs or personal control) .
I would preferred he do the costs minimizing measures more slowly, but I don’t think anyone can criticize the efficiency there.
And all of that while not knowing anything about how social media companies work or having previous experience.
I am saying all this as a person who use Mastodon and BlueSky instead of Twitter.
Most people who left Twitter left it because of Elon ego rather than the way he manages the company internally.
I think a lot of people would disagree with you about X. Objectively he bought the company for $44B and now it’s worth $9B that’s a huge loss. Most people attribute the decline to his “efficiency” measures. Basically losing all the good talent in his company causing a significant decline in users ( because of quality of service). His running of Twitter I think would be a better example of a failure.
That aside hypothetically even if X was doing well - How would the strategy / approach he used in a public company be good for government. These are two very different places?
like that time Elon Musk removed all the LiDAR sensors from Tesla vehicles that allowed them to be driven safely on auto-pilot?
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/critics-call-teslas-elon-musk-irresponsible-for-casting-doubt-on-need-for-lidar-sensors-in-self-driving-cars-2019-05-26
You are capable of googling and finding Elon Musk’s history of cost-cutting, he guts products - Twitter is another great example
See “firing everyone at Twitter” then realizing the people he fired were responsible for, you know, actually running Twitter.
https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/elon-musk-twitter-rehire-fired-employees-soros-magneto-1235615023/
His approach was essentially “If I don’t know what you do, you’re fired.” Failing to realize the flaw in “not knowing what someone does” is between his own two ears.