Making Meta | Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth (CTO)

Jump into new things, give it six months. If it's not the thing, no problem. You just built a ton of new skills that's going to come in handy, I promise you that. Keep going.

Anytime they have the wrong information, or they don't have the information, you've now blocked one of the economically most valuable things that your company possesses, which is this person's time, attention, talent.

When you're passionate about something, you do better work, you do smarter work and you're, in order of magnitude, more productive.

You want to work at a company that has a balanced portfolio of investments. You don't want to work at a company that, when times are tough, kills all future growth and just shores up in the core business. That's a company that's just committing itself to dying at some point.

News Feed is Facebook's main timeline feature that displays posts from friends and pages in users' feeds.

Now News Feed was an easier case than people suspect. Everyone was outraged at the same time as they immediately doubled their usage of the product.

Mark refers to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, known for his hands-on involvement in product details.

When Mark has determined that the thing that you're working on is the most important thing, there is no detail too small for him to notice. He will be in a review, and in the same review. We'll be like, 'Strategically, I think we're off course. And also, this one pixel is definitely wrong.'

Nobody wants you to be more awesome than your manager does, because when you're amazing, your manager, his life gets easier, her life gets easier.

The advice I find I have to give more frequently than any other in my career, as a manager, a board member, an advisor and a friend, is for people to more directly leverage their leaders.

Nobody wants you to be more awesome than your manager does, because when you're amazing, your manager, his life gets easier, her life gets easier.

Communication is the job. If you want to have an impact on the world around you, it is exclusively done through the creation of artifacts or verbalizations that affect other humans. That is all there is.