Focus on making the world a worse place. Great. Please retire.
I am quite glad to see that the tide towards these people has turned even here on HN
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#52Takes some extraordinary lack of self awareness to write something like this while burning tens of billions of dollars a year spearheading the "Metaverse", which is as big a digression from the company's core competency as you could possibly get. And soon after publishing this he would go on to lay off a large chunk of the team and more than 20,000 employees total.
This is a guy who famously said “Maybe it costs a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools. And still we connect people.“[1]
I don’t think self-awareness is really his thing.
[1] https://www.entrepreneur.com/science-technology/read-the-con...
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#53This is an article about bloat, in the broadest possible sense. Psychological bloat.
Attention is the scarcest resource, and complexity eats away at attention.
There's lot of other threats to attention, the relevant one here is cognitive load. Your mind keeps track of things even if they're not in conscious awareness. Every item has a "handle" on you.
If you take inventory, you may find many are not worth the cost! Worth doing, every now and then.
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#54I don’t know who Boz is, so perhaps it makes me more receptive to his message, but I agree with what he says. Steve Jobs said the exact same thing about saying no and staying on target.
I am learning the same lessons at my far smaller and less evil endeavour. There is so much good you can do, and some many low-hanging fruit, but eventually these small detours that each come with small obligations pile up and make every next move harder. There comes a point where your main task is delayed by a yak shaving expedition that started as a small favour to a single user.
I never got good at it, but I see the value in ruthless prioritisation.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you read the whole thing? he is clearly talking about having lost focus which is directly in agreement with your take on the Metaverse.
If that was the case then he wouldn't have continued doubling and tripling down on these same product decisions for many more years. Ask anyone at Meta and they will readily agree that Boz is among the most incompetent and unserious leaders in tech. His only qualification is being Zuck's friend, and that shields him from all criticism. At a more "focused" company he would have been fired a decade ago. As it stands he…
> As it stands he lost the shareholders $150B+ (and counting)
When you put it like that, I kinda warm to the guy
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#56Focus on making the world a worse place. Great. Please retire.
I am quite glad to see that the tide towards these people has turned even here on HN
It’s astonishing how quickly attitudes have shifted on this forum since engineers have been reminded which side of the labor/capital divide they’re really on. I can scarcely believe some of the comments I’m seeing on here these days.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am quite glad to see that the tide towards these people has turned even here on HN
It’s astonishing how quickly attitudes have shifted on this forum since engineers have been reminded which side of the labor/capital divide they’re really on. I can scarcely believe some of the comments I’m seeing on here these days.
Absolutely spot on, I also think that's the reason why.
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#58I don't think it was thought of that Facebook would be worth $1.5T some day, but I'm positive what was on the 10th employees mind while getting paged at the middle of night was "I'm in the process of getting filthy rich". That certainly would help me focus.
Facebook was a networking site for a handful of college campuses at the time. It had some great traction, sure, but I doubt "filthy rich" was a serious expectation among employees.
Boz joined in 2006. In 2005 their valuation was $100M. In 2006 their valuation was $500M. Literally all the people he sat next to when he joined all knew they were filthy rich already.
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#59It’s time to pull yourself out of your tunnel vision and look at the wasteland left behind by the ruthless machine you are building.
what are you talking about ?
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