[KaiserPro]

I do love when Boz espouses opinions.

He has got better them over the years, this one is much less teenager trying to sound clever. Which is great, I love to see people grow.

The problem with this is that in my professional dealings with him, he has two modes: empathetic & arrogant dick. At his worse he was fighting in the comments section of workplace, telling employees that they are wrong. At his best he is warm and caring, even funny.

The problem for meta employees, is that most of the time you only really see arrogant dick boz.

[triceratops]

> this one is much less teenager trying to sound clever

I read the blog post without knowing who this person is. I genuinely believed the author was a young person, maybe someone in their early 20s, just figuring some stuff out. "Do good things" isn't exactly a deep philosophical or moral insight. I've read the same thing on Cracked for chrissakes.

[herval]

My best memory of boz is him arguing with an intern on workspace and calling them "privileged", during COVID, when the kid asked whether the company would provide some sort of cash bonus since the free meals weren't available.

"Teenager trying to sound clever" captures every other interaction perfectly.

[chipsrafferty]

That sounds pretty fair to me. Having a Meta salary means you can afford to buy food. Having free food on top of a $300,000 income is pretty privileged and complaining about it being taken away even more so.

[herval]

Interns don’t make $300k, buddy. At the time, they made ~$6k/mo. And were forced to move to the Bay Area despite the lockdown. To get put down by a dude zooming from his mansion in Hawaii.

[KaiserPro]

> complaining about it being taken away even more so.

I mean thats fair game, if people take away free stuff I like, I'd get pissed off as well. Asking politely about changes is also fair game.

Moaning about it is not though.

Complaining about the quality of perfectly good food, thats a dick move.

I'm always fascinated at the thought process and frankly upbringing of someone who would publicly complain about food in such a whiny and rambling way. The lack of awareness to skip through the top posts, and note that the batshit ones are always the ones that get snarky comments.

for example[paraphrasing to protect the dipshit]: "The <meat dish, carved from the joint, on demand> was chewy. I find that all the red meat here is chewy. Is this due to the quality of the meat, or the skill of the cooking"

a bunch of people agree

Then someone pipes up and asks: "would you like the chefs to chew if for you first?"

[raffael_de]

So this text is not "teenager trying to sound clever"? I just thought that this is the best summary of it.

[swiftcoder]

> this one is much less teenager trying to sound clever

On the other hand, it's very much freshman-who-misunderstood-philosophy-101-and-integrated-it-into-his-worldview-anyway...

[photonthug]

In philosophy 101 the usual foil for Rousseau vs.. would be Hobbes, but that framing with a realist/pessimist would not be popular with the intended audience, where the goal is to lionize the nationalist, the inventors/owners, the 1%.

> Despite his own moral lapses, Franklin saw himself as uniquely qualified to instruct Americans in morality. He tried to influence American moral life through the construction of a printing network based on a chain of partnerships from the Carolinas to New England. He thereby invented the first newspaper chain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin#Newspaperman

To be clear Franklin's obviously a complicated historical figure, a pretty awesome guy overall, and I do like American pragmatism generally. But it matters a lot which part of the guy you'd like to hold up for admiration, and elevating a preachy hypocrite that was an early innovator in monopolies and methods of controlling the masses does seem pretty tactical and self-serving here.

[some_furry]

Hmm. I got the same impression from this article, despite having never heard of the guy before.

[kragen]

Were they wrong?

[KaiserPro]

Yes, demonstrably.

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/meta-smartwatch-leaked-a...

That abomination should have been killed from the start.

the lack of attention to user experience in any of the RL based products

The utterly stupid "blockchain compatibility" policy, which was too late, to fucking stupid and poorly executed.

The inability to run any project in RL that delivered any kind of value

(horizon's many many many iterations is an affront to any kind of good governance)

[kragen]

So it was pretty important and beneficial for someone to tell them so, and Boz ended up being the guy? That doesn't sound like his worst; keeping his mouth shut on other occasions was almost certainly worse.

[Centigonal]

I think GP is saying that Boz was wrong (he was VP of VR), not the FB staffer he was arguing with. GP should clarify.

[KaiserPro]

Sorry yes, Boz was wrong repeatedly. Specifically in this instance, he was arguing about HR policy, on an HR policy post.

Don't get me wrong, there were, and probably still are, a bunch of entitled pricks who are willing to post about the most stupid shit (I AM SHOCKED!!! that the meat was chewy, etc, etc, etc) but the CTO shouldn't be fighting in the comments section of someone else's back yard, when his own was on fire.

[kragen]

Oh, yeah, that puts a different spin on it.