Speech opportunity.
Speech opportunity.
Posted Jan 29, 2025 19:27 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: Speech opportunity. by NYKevin
Parent article: FOSDEM keynote causes concerns
This may comes as a shock but billionaires are not all carbon copies of each other and they don't all behave the same and all follow the same standard policies. Also small fraction of their being is still unpredictably human - as incredible as it may sound. Especially in some unscripted interview context. Not in a scripted keynote: agreed.
That's why it matters to be open and curious and willing to listen. Not to anything in any context of course, but not to "nothing ever, BAD (tm)!" either.
I honestly don't know whether Dorsey is the best billionaire to pay attention to. I'm just saying that "lalalala never listen to billionaires" is a pretty "primal" attitude going nowhere. Dorsey seems to have a relatively complex history, for instance he left BlueSky because it was becoming "another Twitter".