All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad
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All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad
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#2If it makes you feel any better, any truly brilliant people working at facebook will probably make enough money in the IPO to be able to retire and work on whatever brilliant stuff they might feel like. At least for a while.
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#3Is it any worse than the reams of medical researchers working on giving old affluent men hard-ons and their hair back?
I doubt it...
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#4tl;dr: I am old. lol.
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#5I think they were useful in egypt and tunisia to get people organized for the revolution that is still sweeping the middle east.
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#6Just because you don't find it useful doesn't mean that other people don't have utility in facebook.
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#7They are doing useful things, they're helping create scalable technology that can serve 600 million people. Cassandra, HipHop, Thrift, etc are all products from those minds. In addition the kinds of problems they are solving, such as creating a platform for third party integration can be applied to many different other areas. So yeah they're working on a social network, but all the while all this good stuff is happening that we all can benefit from...without a facebook account (I don't have one).
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#8I was reminded of the following article when I read this blog posting:
http://greaterseas.com/2011/05/the-future-of-innovation/
There's a great quote by Jeff Hammerbacher (an ex-Facebooker) that is great:
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.”
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#9While I don't buy the "facebook is just games and noise" stuff, I do think we should be focusing a bit more in things like clean tech, space missions, etc.
Why does almost everybody want to go work for facebook instead of tesla or any other innovative company not primarily focused in "web" development?
And yeah, the big equity bucks, but I think those could be moving towards other tech fields too...
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#10I think they were useful in egypt and tunisia to get people organized for the revolution that is still sweeping the middle east.
I saw an old cleric at a funeral of one of the protesters killed in Egypt on AlJazeera. He spoke of how they had mocked him for his blue jeans(!) and his facebook. He begged forgiveness and said that he saw now how he had been leading the way. Moving stuff.