Elon's Choice
When you find yourself in a pit of misery based on your own poor decision-making skills, you have four (4) options. In ascending order of desirability (from the standpoint of ending your misery) the options are:
1) Keep digging;
2) Freeze - do nothing and wait for a deus ex machina to rescue you;
3) Quit, climb out, and run like hell; and
4) Learn, change, and do something creative with the pit.
It looks as though Elon has certainly rejected #2. What I can't really tell is whether this: Twitter needs a new CEO in wake of Musk's resignation represents a choice of #3, #4, or an attempt to have #1 and #3 simultaneously.
Elon's only comment recorded so far is "I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams," he tweeted.
The problem with #4 is that it involves a certain measure of heightened misery in the short term as you recognize how you got where you are, and own up to those poor decision making skills, with the attendant humiliation involved. Those of us who've been in such a pit and have tried #4 can attest that "humiliation" can be a necessary step in the development of "humility" (two very different things). And that "humility" is the beginning of wisdom, and that wisdom is, indeed, the surest road, not just out of that particular pit of misery, but away from digging future pits for yourself.
But it's not fun. It's the hard choice.
So... I'm going with "Elon is attempting to have #1 and #3 simultaneously" and hoo, boy.... those of us who've also tried that will be popping the popcorn.
interestedly,
Bright
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