Is this that masculine energy Zuck was hoping to bring to Facebook? For serious though, this seems like the kind of political awkwardness detailed in careless people.
It makes me wonder, some people do seem to rise to prominence by being serious principled people, but it seems fewer and farther between recently, and it’s amazing to think the extent to which values I was dissuaded from as a kid are the key to success.
It’s also - maybe this is part of the lifecycle of all businesses, but it’s wild when thinking of why capitalism is “good” that people have envisioned self-interest in this way which causes people to pull apart in a productively competitive tension, and not self interest as being “manipulate the government until you win” in this morass of toxic re-inforcement.
It makes me wonder, some people do seem to rise to prominence by being serious principled people, but it seems fewer and farther between recently, and it’s amazing to think the extent to which values I was dissuaded from as a kid are the key to success.
It’s also - maybe this is part of the lifecycle of all businesses, but it’s wild when thinking of why capitalism is “good” that people have envisioned self-interest in this way which causes people to pull apart in a productively competitive tension, and not self interest as being “manipulate the government until you win” in this morass of toxic re-inforcement.