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He's a rational actor who also somehow doesn't actually get it in a broad sense. Consider Kara Swisher's interview with him on Recode Decode… or Doug Rushkoff (

He's a rational actor who also somehow doesn't actually get it in a broad sense. Consider Kara Swisher's interview with him on Recode Decode… or Doug Rushkoff (Team Human book/podcast etc) wondered publicly if part of the problem was how Zuck dropped out of college. Rushkoff speculated about all these deeper philosophical, economic, political, humanism, etc. courses that might have got Zuck to actually get a more mature perspective instead of basically going right from adolescent snarky asshole to just applying that maturity level (albeit with a lot of intelligence) to his business. He's rational in a sense, but he very well might not have ever stepped back far enough to really consider broader perspectives with an open mind, even as he reads and hears concerns. He probably reads them all with some strategic/tactical mindset that blocks him from truly getting the point.

in_hindsight 8y ago
Zuck may not be the role model when for tech theorists, but Rushkoff is just empty - that’s coming from hearing him talk and answer questions live
- quadrangle 8y ago
  or maybe you just didn't get what Rushkoff was saying, the way I'm describing Zuck not really getting what Kara Swisher was saying.
beenBoutIT 8y ago
I started using FB in '05 as a junior in college and it instantly became my 'favorite thing in the world'. IMO, Zuckerberg gifted University students across America with FB and single-handedly made the college experience better than it had ever been prior. On top of that, he's a smart guy who made it big in a world where endless shitloads of smart people never succeed in life and visionaries like Nikla Tesla die penniless. IOW, for a bunch of reasons I'm always rooting for the guy and I'd always thought of him as extremely lucky for getting to fast-track into the real world. Now that you and Rushkoff mention it, the second half of the 4yr undergrad experience is exponentially better than the first, and success effectively robbed Zuckerberg of all of the great upper-division courses.

in_hindsight 8y ago

Zuck may not be the role model when for tech theorists, but Rushkoff is just empty - that’s coming from hearing him talk and answer questions live

quadrangle 8y ago
or maybe you just didn't get what Rushkoff was saying, the way I'm describing Zuck not really getting what Kara Swisher was saying.

beenBoutIT 8y ago

I started using FB in '05 as a junior in college and it instantly became my 'favorite thing in the world'. IMO, Zuckerberg gifted University students across America with FB and single-handedly made the college experience better than it had ever been prior. On top of that, he's a smart guy who made it big in a world where endless shitloads of smart people never succeed in life and visionaries like Nikla Tesla die penniless. IOW, for a bunch of reasons I'm always rooting for the guy and I'd always thought of him as extremely lucky for getting to fast-track into the real world. Now that you and Rushkoff mention it, the second half of the 4yr undergrad experience is exponentially better than the first, and success effectively robbed Zuckerberg of all of the great upper-division courses.