Elon Musk’s plan is to run Twitter off the top of his head
by Casey Newton from The Verge - All Posts on (#60FJ3)
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk appeared at a virtual town hall for Twitter employees on Thursday to answer their questions, and by the end of the session one question loomed larger than most: can you really run Twitter off the top of your head?
Over 60 or so freewheeling minutes, the world's richest man fielded queries over remote work, layoffs, content moderation, and other questions of pressing interest to Twitter's roughly 8,000 employees. Time and again, he offered workers hungry for concrete answers a jumble of sentence fragments.
Will Twitter's mostly remote workforce be able to continue working from home? Maybe, if they're excellent," Musk said, according to Bloomberg's live blog. But it's much better if you are on location physically," he said, a...