Use astericks to italicize. :-) If I can do it, so can they. Perhaps not for 16 hours a day. I tend to cut myself off at 12 or 14 (call me a slacker). A smalle

Use astericks to italicize. :-) If I can do it, so can they. Perhaps not for 16 hours a day. I tend to cut myself off at 12 or 14 (call me a slacker). A smaller dedicated staff with an ethos of accountability beats out a large supposedly genius and top notch staff that has a reputation for playing games during the majority of their shift. I'm not a programmer, but I'll tell you that this is a belief that's widespread throughout almost every industry and it's one that's very rarely accurate. The man who's most indicative of the flaws in this thinking is Ricky Gervais, the man who probably influenced highbrow comedy more than any man in the last 20 years. The DVDs to The Office include lots of behind the scenes showing Ricky dawdling during the writing process (he plays a rubber band, shoots it at his cowriter, spills coffee on the script, mashing napkins into his mouth and throwing them up), and then again during the process of directing/acting, essentially sabotaging things to have fun with the process. His work ethic is famously bad, yet the products he puts out are more tightly made than nearly anything else I've seen. The creative process - and making a huge web site like Facebook is absolutely a creative process - is not one that can be forced out. Creative minds work to their own schedules. Some people are capable of churning out a dozen hours of work every day. Others procrastinate and still end up with great pieces of work. (again, ask FriendFeed, Myspace, Friendster, Six Degrees of Seperation, Orkut, Yahoo 360, and the rest of the zombies beckoning from the graveyard) It's not worth the time it would take to argue with you, but I've spent a lot of time in this particular medium and you are dead wrong comparing Facebook to these.