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I found your response bit creepy. The part you quote are the last sentences; obviously it shouldn't be taken 100% seriously and I am surprise you did, since he
by joering2 14y ago
I found your response bit creepy.
The part you quote are the last sentences; obviously it shouldn't be taken 100% seriously and I am surprise you did, since he obviously joked, as there are many other places than Miami that are nice to live, something I am pretty sure you are aware of.
Of course blaming top management is a way to go. That's the major difference between junior, senior and executives; in first two instances for your failures, up to some degree can be blamed rightfully anyway you want to: on a weather, on other emps unwillingness to work hard, etc. But when you are that high in hierarchy as an executive who can hire or fire thousands of emps at once, and should have broad insights into every company's corner, there are no more excuses available to you: you either did your job and succeed, or you did your job miserably and failed. There is just too much power all the way on the top to blame weather or junior emps for your own failures.
Said that, this article is quite frankly right on spot. Other than obviously the author is not a stock market researcher and may not know the numbers behind this stock (P/E f.e.) cannot help but push it down to a reasonable levels, he is right that CEO and COO had entirely different approach to making money.
- tptacek 14y agoNo part of this comment responds to mine. Let me simplify my comment, which was simultaneously prolix and a little dashed off. I have 2 points: 1. The source material for this whole article, which concludes by suggesting that Sandberg should move to "nice" Miami to start an ad agency, is a book that was published in June '10. 2. The core critique of the article is that Facebook derives most of its income from advertising, when it (somehow?) might have done something different. The author never specifies what. The most damning thing the author appears to be able to say about that decision is, the entire Facebook upper management team agreed with Sandberg about this. Aside from that: what's "creepy" about my response? I wasn't explicit about this, but what was "creepy" to me about the story was the way it pitted nerdy male Zuckerberg against "nice" female Sandberg.
- joering2 14y agoI don't know, just the way it sounded creepy to me. I guess the guy wrote the article trying to explain how Zuck had this idea about network where eventually revenue will come from API/graph/developers and at the end he throw a sentence that Sandberg should move to Miami. I am not sure if being focused on this one last sentence was his goal and you made it sound like it did. As of "nerdy male Zuck" vs. "nice female Sandberg", sorry but that did not cross my mind even once.
- tptacek 14y agoWell, it crossed my mind immediately, and then crossed it again, then walked into the middle of it and started jumping up and down. So I wrote a comment. I think the word you meant to use, regarding my comment, was "obnoxious". All pejoratives are not created equal. Singling one person out in a blog post and lobbying that they be fired with no evidence other than what was written years ago in a mass market book, and that they should go to a "nice" city and start an ad agency? I found that creepy. Yelling on HN about that point of view? You found that obnoxious, I'm betting.