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> For an unfathomable amount of the people working at twitter the answer will be zero lines of code.

True, but an accusatory calendar invite still isn't a good way to do this. He could find out himself from the commit history/JIRA tickets, with the additional benefit of not putting people on the defensive and making a poor first impression. Then again, relationship building isn't really his style, so this doesn't surprise me.

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Heaven forbid the people who show up with blank printed pages be made to feel defensive. Relationship might suffer so much they might just have to break up permanently.

The problem of course is not annoying the underperformers, but you want to avoid annoying the valuable engineers who get things done and keep the company running. There's plenty of demand for engineers -- if they want, they could find another job in a week where they don't have to deal with hostile management. Treat people well. Assume the best and let them prove you right, rather than assuming the worst and making them prove you wrong.

Trust me, the absolute last thing a valuable engineer is annoyed about is to finally have some time to show off some of the things he did.

Musk clearly dislikes fragile corporate cultures. He's going to destroy and rebuild Twitter's culture, that is very clearly his intent. I don't know how much more obvious it could be. He'll rebuild it in a way that he prefers companies to operate, staffed with the kind of people he prefers (whether anyone else likes that or not).

Exactly this.

I mean, you're not wrong, but I was more replying to the "I'd do just that" sentence which seems to imply the scorched earth approach is a good thing. We don't need people going around emulating Musk.

Of course you don't. ;)

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