This will be my last post here on X/Twitter. I've decided, as many others have, to migrate to Threads.
I attribute part of this decision to business logic - Twitter is dying. Why waste energy on a platform that will die? But on a more visceral level I just can't stand Musk.
On a separate note, I've become a registered financial advisor in Canada, and started blogging regularly on https://t.co/fr3krlO7yd I have very high regard for many of the people here, so I hope we can connect elsewhere.
This will be my last post here on X/Twitter. I've decided, as many others have, to migrate to Threads.
I attribute part of this decision to business logic - Twitter is dying. Why waste energy on a platform that will die? But on a more visceral level I just can't stand Musk.
@MPelletierCIO The average home price in Canada is more than $700k. Average household income is only around $75k. But house price to income ratio is only 150%?
@amendandpretend@modestproposal1 This. The number of people in a project doesn't matter so much as quality. A team of 160 very good programmers can easily outperform a mediocre team of 16,000.
There were ~1,000 users when I joined my #MastodonSocial server (https://t.co/mxubWZ5YHk) about a week and a half ago. There are now nearly 20,000 users. The poor server admin is going nuts trying to scale resources.
Unless you operated large systems, itโs hard to appreciate both how they work, and how they break.
Twitter wonโt go down with a big b, and it wonโt go down irreparable.
Things will work fine for a while - thanks to no new deploys! Then, hereโs whatโs likely to happen (contโd):
Twitter now has early seed stage level company chaos but with thousands of employees and billions in revenue and entirely in the public eye.
Absolutely wild to watch.
@lopezlinette SBF sounds like someone who's allergic to deep thought that can't be expressed in a mere handful of paragraphs. He's not the only one, though. It's the disease of our age.