Twitter's Dorsey Rallies Staff Around Independent Strategy in Internal Memo

Re:Twitter's Dorsey Rallies Staff Around Independent Strateg... by dilemma on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @09:37AM (#12684211)

This lacks content and looks a capitulation - an admission that he's lost, wholesale replacing the Jobsian persona he nurtured previously with a wholesome 'we're all friends' skit.

The end is just bizarre, as if he's being coached to "show appreciation to your closest associates to avoid more churn" and does so in the most literal, superficial way possible.

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Re:Twitter's Dorsey Rallies Staff Around Independent Strateg... by intoverflow2 on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:25PM (#12685865)

>I appreciate <person> for <work skill>, <work skill>, <personal quirk>

Felt so robotic it was almost a mail merge

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Re:Twitter's Dorsey Rallies Staff Around Independent Strateg... by burkaman on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @09:48AM (#12684306)

Also feels a little weird that he did those shoutouts in alphabetic order.

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Re:Twitter's Dorsey Rallies Staff Around Independent Strateg... by erdevs on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @10:32AM (#12684689)

To be fair, often one does that to avoid people wondering if the order means something (ie order of importance). It's sometimes meant to signal that they are in no political order, but simply listed alphabetically.

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Re:Twitter's Dorsey Rallies Staff Around Independent Strateg... by burkaman on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @10:38AM (#12684769)

That makes sense. It came off as a little impersonal for some reason, like he was just going down a list of email contacts, but I can see why you might do that on purpose.

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Re:Twitter's Dorsey Rallies Staff Around Independent Strateg... by cpeterso on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @04:32PM (#12688270)

The email also lacks any forward-looking plans or action items. OK, so Twitter is the "people's news network". What do we do about it?

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