Brian Barrett
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first heard Apr 2026
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The solutions that Boz suggested felt to me like they may have missed the mark internally.
I don't know.
I don't work at Meta.
But things like capping managers at 20 direct reports each, still a lot of direct reports, limiting the number of times employees can switch new managers as part of the restructurings, sure.
And then my favorite, Zoe, quote, improving micro kitchens, which is to say better snacks.
Well, even if the messaging is, hey, let's change the world, we're on the precipice of something huge, there's also the reality of meta's pretty far behind in this stuff.
And so as much as you say this is for a higher cause, there's also a little bit of a scramble aspect to it.
There's a little bit of like, we got to just mix things up in major ways and keep shaking things up until we finally get more competitive with OpenAI, get more competitive with Anthropic.
in some ways they went through this with Reality Labs trying to make the metaverse happen, and that never obviously materialized, and I don't think will.
This is a little bit different in that other companies are showing, no, actually you can make a little bit of a business here, at least.
I feel like it's a more uncomfortable position because at least with Reality Labs and trying to make the metaverse happen, they were out there on an island doing it themselves.
Here, they're in a race and they are losing.
So one thing I want to add, just because I think it's important that everyone knows if they don't,
is that inside Meta, employees are called Metamates.
I just think if you don't know that, now you do, and your life is a little bit better for it.
Yeah, I'd say so.
The recording from that meta meeting and the internal comms are not the only leaked materials that we've reported on this past week.
We also ran a story on numerous internal records pertaining to an exclusive invite-only society co-founded by billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel back in 2006.
Their group is called Dialogue.
It has spent two decades declining to disclose its member list, but now the directory of people involved in the society has become a bit clearer thanks to a directory in the website's code that was first revealed by a Swiss hacktivist.
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