When Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, made the announcement earlier this year that he was going to buy Twitter, I was indifferent. I didn’t (and don’t) like Elon Musk, but I could appreciate the fact that he was innovative in fields I understand very little about and could, under the right circumstances, bring some of that innovation to bear on a social media platform plagued by financial and operational problems. I had an open mind.