Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
Interesting strategic window:  You can&#x27;t innovate and software engineer using 1950s style &quot;butts in seats&quot;.  Maybe this is a signal twitter isn&#x27;t going to innovate, develop, and maybe even operate, internally, at least going forward.<p>You need code for a new feature?  Buy a startup that already wrote it.  You need to keep something running?  Contract out instead of employees.<p>Very few companies have a full time plumber or carpenter or electrician on staff (except for obvious obscure exceptions of course).  He might be planning bigger changes than people seem to think.<p>What fundamentally does twitter do?  Sell ads by moving data around using enormous first mover advantage of account numbers.  And that needs a huge employee count why exactly?  I am not asking that it did, or it did in the early days of the technology, or what the competitors do.<p>All industries, after the heavy employment phase, move into a value extraction phase.  He seems to be betting on the heavy employment phase being over for tweeting.  Honestly the only question is timing, is he just right or too early?<p>Maybe tweeting is now like railroads or heavy industry, no longer employs entire neighborhoods or even cities.  Maybe SV is about to become the new Detroit.