people agree with that. But on a philosophical level I kind of see everybody as equal. Sorry, not legally and not practically. In a practical sense you just can't treat everybody the same. Yeah, you have to treat certain behaviors completely differently than other behaviors of course. But when I walk into a room and see a bunch of miscreants and ne'er-do-wells and non-standard people, basically a pirate ship of humanity, I don't walk into that room and say well you suck, you suck, you're bad, you're unworthy, that one I like, that one I like. I don't do that. I walk in and I like the whole pirate ship. I like the whole pirate ship. I have to condemn some of them for behaviors but I don't devalue people because I don't see free will the same way other people do. So certainly you can change people's behavior maybe by condemning certain parts. Maybe it reduces who does what. But I don't believe in, oh judge not. Thank you. Thank you. If you'd like to put it into Christian terms and let me invite you to do that. I'm not a believer but I like the framework. It's a handy framework. So yeah, who am I to judge? That would be the better way to say it. I don't put myself in the role of a judge but certainly you have to condemn certain behaviors for practical reasons.

All right. Here's my new red line. I was insulted on Twitter today and while I think you should use the blocking judiciously, somebody went a little too far today and I just want to run it by you because you're my advisors. So as my advisors, did I go too far or is this reasonable? I blocked somebody today who accused me in public, and people are going to see this right because it's like a permanent record, he actually accused me in public of believing the news. Well I mean I blocked that. Don't do that if you want to ever ever ever see me again. I will be so gone.

All right. So the big interesting news is that Elon Musk has declined the offer to have a board seat on Twitter. Isn't that interesting? Didn't we think that his play was to get on the board and that he'd have some influence? Well it turns out we all learn something today or you're about to learn it. Being on the board limits your options. Did you know that? It limits your options if you're Elon Musk. It probably doesn't limit your options if you're just a board member like if you were important enough to be on the board but maybe other people haven't heard your name before. Well in that case being on the board probably does give you more influence over Twitter. But if you're Elon Musk all it does is limit you because everybody's going to listen to what you say, right? That's the key. Everyone's going to listen to what you say. So once you have that, being on the board just gives you limitations. It's a limit to what you can say about the company I'm pretty sure. I think there's some limits about how you can trash the company if you're on the board and I think there's a limit to how much stock you can own. Somebody said 15 percent. So why would he put up with limits when there's no upside? And I think to myself I don't know if there's another person in the world who would have played it this way and it's right. I don't know anybody else who would have played it exactly like this, to earn a board seat and then turn it down because it was limiting. Nobody else would do that even if they were in this position. I feel like they wouldn't have done that. He consistently finds the thing that you're not supposed to do and then makes it work and that's why it's so fun to watch.

Now he continues to make marketing departments completely irrelevant wherever he has ownership of a company because he just is so newsworthy that really has anybody not heard of Twitter? Have you not heard that there might be some changes coming? I think you probably have heard it but the marketing department didn't get it done. Musk did.

So I saw a tweet by a user named Tank, that's what he calls himself on Twitter. He tweets, he goes, let me break this down for you. Elon becomes largest shareholder for free speech. Elon was told to play nice and not speak freely. In other words the entire reason he was doing it was to have, you know, try to get free speech for himself and others and joining the board would actually limit his free speech, you know, in a commercial way not in a government way.

So in a separate but related story there's a Twitter engineering manager. Now what I don't know is how important a Twitter engineering manager is. Are there lots of them because there are lots of subgroups so they all need a little manager or is this somebody who manages all the engineers? I don't know. It'd be a pretty big difference. But somebody who is a Twitter engineering manager had been tweeting some negative stuff about Elon being on the board and really hated it and was digging up some old Elon Musk tweets to embarrass him. And I think this is telling you everything isn't it? It feels like that's everything. I feel like knowing that there's an engineering manager in Twitter that really really doesn't like whatever it is that Elon Musk thinks he's going to do, I feel like now you know everything don't you? Now it's only one person so you know maybe I'm overgeneralizing here but that's one person who operated with impunity in the sense that that one person was not shy about putting out the mes