Elon Musk’s Brutally Honest Management Style
Unapologetic awfulness is preferable to Silicon Valley hypocrisy.
by Helen Lewis
Nov 17, 2022
3 minutes
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Like everyone else still left on Twitter—at this point, roughly 90,000 journalists and 14 bemused normal people—I was deeply skeptical about Elon Musk’s takeover of the social network. Was it a that got out of hand? Did he really want to make himself the main character of American intellectual life? Does it fulfill a deep psychological need to force serious media organizations to weigh in every time he replies “lol” to some crank, launders a conspiracy theory into the discourse, or makes a particularly obscure ? (Say “Ligma Johnson”
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