TL/DR: An interesting, adjective-heavy story about how Facebook and Zuckerburg responded to the Google+ competitive threat between 2012-2014. Zuck likened it to Roman conquering and Facebook went temporarily into "Lockdown" with seven day workweeks. Anecdotes suggest Facebook worked Sundays more often than Google. Otherwise pretty light on content.
I really hate this kind of article. Good writing has a summary of the most important stuff at the top and then drills down into various interesting aspects. Thanks for the TL/DR, I had given up after the first paragraph.
I can't imagine ever loving my employer this much. And heaven help whoever tells me I'm on "lockdown" so I can't leave the building and I have to work weekends.
Like someone else said. Love your job, but do not fall in love with your employer. You never know when your employer stops loving you.
I can't imagine ever loving my employer this much. And heaven help whoever tells me I'm on "lockdown" so I can't leave the building and I have to work weekends.
Facebook is notorious for this. It is 100% a legitimate cult. Don't worry about wondering if someone works at Facebook or not. They'll be sure to tell you.
> I don't believe anyone thought Google Plus would've actually stood a chance I know that I certainly did, and in fact for awhile my Facebook image was something along the lines of, 'I've left for G+!' Sadly, not many folks made the transition, and I'm back. Funny timing on this story — I've recently been reading some of the Indie Web Camp stuff, and discovered that diaspora came out in 2010 . It seems like just yest…
At this point, nothing will. I still see people come up with arguments that myspace was in a similar situation,but FB is nothing like MySpace. Users have spent more than 10 years sharing things, sticking to them and there's no way to step them from it. But what other companies can do is to try create services which helps certain kinds of people. Like people typically use FB for news, friend's know how, photos, random…
The way to unseat an established network is to build a network no one controls, which makes it the obvious alternative for anyone dissatisfied with the monopolist. Decentralization yields powerful network effects, and we're all about to watch it unfold. If you want to be a part of it, dive into the decentralized application communities that are forming around Ethereum and IPFS.
You know, back when I riffed on the great poem "Ozymandias" in the context of Zuckerberg and Facebook[1] I thought maybe, just maybe I was over-reaching on the whole ego-drive thing with Zuckerberg, but after reading this, not so much.
I can't imagine ever loving my employer this much. And heaven help whoever tells me I'm on "lockdown" so I can't leave the building and I have to work weekends.
Like someone else said. Love your job, but do not fall in love with your employer. You never know when your employer stops loving you.
I'm not even on board with the first one. It's a financial transaction for my services. I'll be nice and polite, but I'm not going to enter into some personal relationship where I can be pressured to tender those services as a favor or for some kind of social capital.
I can't imagine ever loving my employer this much. And heaven help whoever tells me I'm on "lockdown" so I can't leave the building and I have to work weekends.
Facebook is notorious for this. It is 100% a legitimate cult. Don't worry about wondering if someone works at Facebook or not. They'll be sure to tell you.
I went from G to FB (which I left shortly afterwards) and I can tell you that FB isn't anywhere near as close to being a cult as G is. Not hearing the word 'googley' 10x a day was alone a substantial improvement.
Zuck should have read Sun Tzu instead of Cato - "If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by." I'm not sure how much of the G+ failure can really be attributed to any particular activity of FB as a company.
TL/DR: An interesting, adjective-heavy story about how Facebook and Zuckerburg responded to the Google+ competitive threat between 2012-2014. Zuck likened it to Roman conquering and Facebook went temporarily into "Lockdown" with seven day workweeks. Anecdotes suggest Facebook worked Sundays more often than Google. Otherwise pretty light on content.
I really hate this kind of article. Good writing has a summary of the most important stuff at the top and then drills down into various interesting aspects. Thanks for the TL/DR, I had given up after the first paragraph.
Certain kinds of good writing do. Many kinds do not.
Agreed, my cringe-pipes have ruptured. It was nice of Facebook to acknowledge the author of this article on the roof of their headquarters though.[0]
People were suspicious before the film, Facebook is an immoral business, and Mark Zuckerberg is nothing more than the world's most notorious panty-sniffer.
