Former twitter engineer here. Maybe he paid more attention at his other companies but Elon was comically clueless about how the twitter machine worked. Hiring geohot and thinking a firmware cracker could make heads or tails of a massively distributed system was pure idiocy.

Totally. Matt Yglesias calls this the “crank realignment.”

https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-crank-realignment-is-bad-for

That’s been my survival mechanism. I’d be homeless otherwise but I was able to hyperfixate on work related things and become a workaholic after failing out of school (where I couldn’t focus on courses I didn’t like).

My life/work balance has never been good, but its awesome to be fixated on the thing people pay you money to do.