Software Engineer @SlackHQ, erstwhile founder/CTO @GoTurbine, Ex-Twitter/TiVo, 10x pedant, fundamentally OK guy
Alameda, CA
Joined April 2010
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𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 retweeted
It’s amusing to poke fun at the hot takes on just how easy it is to run the site, or be distracted by the latest Elon shitpost, but let’s not lose track of the fact that $13B debt added to the balance sheet killed the company way more effectively than firing all the SREs.
𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 retweeted
I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices.
Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
While a number of people in the replies are taking this literally, this is a joke.
Just a few days earlier, this same user claimed to have been laid off by a different company:
twitter.com/anothercohen/s…
𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 retweeted
just so were all clear, Musk is firing half of Twitter's staff, including huge swaths of their content moderation capability, four days before opening up identity-confirmation-free verification to the whole website which will happen...the day before a national election.
𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 retweeted
Under California’s Worker Adjustment Retraining Notice Act (WARN), employers are legally obligated to notify affected employees AND state and local representatives 60 days before a mass layoff.
latimes.com/business/story/2…
𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 retweeted
here’s a live wire you can handle, a firehose you can safely sip from, poisoned though the waters. a place where animals, plants, and minerals momentarily make monuments in miniature together.
𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 retweeted
Tweeps are just hanging out in Slack saying nice things to each other until their access is cut off. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Some really incredible people leaving Twitter tonight. We are all worse off without them there
𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 retweeted
Since I left twitter people have regularly asked me if it was this wild while I was there. For the first time, I can say no.
𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 retweeted
I don’t know many people who still work at Twitter but I think anyone who had any history with the company has to feel awful about what’s happening right now. I know I do. Folks deserved better.
𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 retweeted
There is of course a nuanced debate to be had about content moderation but right now we've reset the clock about 15 years as folks fumble through a first principles approach. And that makes dunking very easy but makes the risk of real harm very high.
𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 retweeted
CA friends! If you haven’t returned your recall ballot, today is a great day to vote “no” and drop it in the mail! Let’s not trade Newsom (who can be a ding dong but has solid policies) for an anti-mask, anti-minimum wage, anti-environment zealot. Please and thank you.
𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 retweeted
“Mr. Dinkins would you please be my mayor” xitter.cf/FirenzeMike/status/133…
𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 retweeted
Holy s—- Alameda Twitter!
There’s an A++ all-teen and pre-teen East Bay metal band playing at Grand and Eagle. Come watch before APD tries to shut it down.
🔥🤘🔥🤘🔥
They’re instagram.com/_ironfront_met… on Insta.
𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 retweeted
My day job (also: night job) is CEO of Slack, a publicly traded company with investors to whom I am a fiduciary, 110k+ paying customers of all sizes, and thousands of employees I care about very, very much. The last few weeks have been 🤯😳😢 Here’s what it's been like. [Thread]
𝓖𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓓 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 retweeted
thank you to Turbine Labs @mccv @9len @_tr @brookshelley and @lucperkins on contributing the excellent LearnEnvoy resource to the @EnvoyProxy project! github.com/envoyproxy/envoyp…
