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Working with Mark Zuckerberg
- swombat 17y agoHow cretinous the comments are. Facebook clearly fails as a blogging platform for this sort of content.
- brown9-2 17y agoFails as a blogging platform or fails as a comment platform? I don't think anything about these "blog notes" and how they are presented could improve on some of the inane comments; that's just the users.
- jrockway 17y agoI am getting very close to writing a Firefox extension called "CommentBlock". If people want to comment on blog posts and newspaper articles, fine, but I don't want to see them. They just make me mad.
- raimondious 17y agoYou might like http://stevenf.com/pages/shutup/ http://stevenf.com/pages/shutup/
- jrockway 17y agoBrilliant. Thanks for the link.
- pnelly 17y agoum, aren't you commenting right now?
- ajju 17y agoNo offence, but am I supposed to expect a blog post on the Company blog about working with the founder to be unbiased? Given that and the reverential tone, I am inclined to discount it. Bonus exercise: Replace "Zuck" with "Chuck Norris" in the entire post and note how it doesn't seem any less ridiculous :)
- raghus 17y agoOne sentence that caught my attention was "He doesn't care what he said yesterday, even if he was presented with the same product."
- khelloworld 17y agoWell, then it'd probably suck to work for him. Is that supposed to be a hidden message...
- sunir 17y agoIf you're constantly trying to build the right thing, you have to be constantly willing to reject failed or obsolete ideas to keep moving forward.
- khelloworld 17y agoYeah. But, changing your stance every other day is something your engineers wouldn't probably appreciate all that much.
- sunir 17y agoThat depends on how engaged your engineers are in the product development process. If they are mere instruments of someone else's vision, no, but if they are also part of the idea creation process, then yes. Facebook constantly deploys and has an experimental mindset towards product development, so it's probably not as obnoxious as it sounds.
- ajju 17y agoI am beginning to wonder if the guy who wrote the post put some of this stuff in intentionally.
- wakeupthedawn 17y agoThere are obviously limits about what an employee can say about his boss, but I'd trust Boz's assessment more than just about anybody else's at Facebook. He didn't glorify Mark as some perfect boss but tried to communicate honestly about the nuances of his management style.
- pedalpete 17y agoclearly change is a big part of the facebook environment, and I guess we can credit Zuck fostering that. The question I have is, seeing as most users don't come to the computer with fresh-eyes every day, can too much change eventually end up hurting the company. They clearly do change extraordinarily quickly, and so far it has worked well for them, but is it just a matter of time before they go too far. The most recent redisign, I don't think added any benefit to the site, I don't think it looks as good, and I don't see where there was an improvement in functionality.
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- codeslinger 17y agoI would argue with the assertion that he doesn't look at other products when evaluating Facebook. Its clear they've been copying from Twitter and FriendFeed for years, so I don't know where the Boz is getting that from.
- byrneseyeview 17y agoHe had the same idea as Twitter, some time before it launched. His version involved aggregating AOL Instant Messenger away messages--and that's the closest thing to Twitter, before Twitter.
- quellhorst 17y agoI had that idea too, and so did thousands of other people. Twitter is the one who executed on that idea.
- endlessvoid94 17y agoI dislike the fact that "zuck" is worthy of writing about like this. He's no genius, he seems to have gotten very lucky, which is fine. He's a terrible public speaker and he's terrible at conveying his ideas. This smells, given that it's written on FACEBOOK's blog. What's the point of this?
- andywood 17y agoReally? The impression I get from having seen him talk in a few videos is that he is clearly where he is because he "gets it" - he has that deep, long-term vision that goes way beyond the app, and taps an underlying culture-shift.
- hyperbovine 17y agoIIRC he built a million dollar product while still in hs. "Luck favors the prepared mind." I see an inordinate amount of vitriol directed at him online. I assume it's mostly jealousy. He built a monster product that in hindsight seems very obvious, and you didn't.
- wakeupthedawn 17y agoThere's definitely a lot of jealously, particularly among the wantrepreneurs that frequent this site. Why don't you go out and try to build your own thing rather than spend so much time trying to nitpick at the foibles of successful people and feed off karma points as a sense of validation for your valueless comments? This is one of my favorite quotes of all time: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - Teddy Roosevelt
- defen 17y agoYes, I've heard. Kills competitors by the hundreds. And if HE were here, he'd consume the Google with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse!