>"Break things" is objectively an imperative. I wrote desirable imperative. You are focusing on grammar (objective interpretation). I was talking about the

>"Break things" is objectively an imperative. I wrote desirable imperative. You are focusing on grammar (objective interpretation). I was talking about the meaning ("imperative" as synonym for "importance"[1] instead of grammar). Likewise, "go get more rejections" is also an imperative (via objective lens of pedantic grammar categorization) ... but that's not what the underlying message means. >MFABT is not an optimal expression. There are better ones. It may have been fine as an internal mantra within the walls of Facebook when it was a smaller private company. The engineers would know what it really meant. But then MZ publicized it in an investor letter before the IPO which opens itself to misinterpretation by the outside world like journalists, bloggers, etc. [1] https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/imperative https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/imperative