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TL/DR: An interesting, adjective-heavy story about how Facebook and Zuckerburg responded to the Google+ competitive threat between 2012-2014. Zuck likened it to Roman conquering and Facebook went temporarily into "Lockdown" with seven day workweeks. Anecdotes suggest Facebook worked Sundays more often than Google. Otherwise pretty light on content.

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I really hate this kind of article. Good writing has a summary of the most important stuff at the top and then drills down into various interesting aspects. Thanks for the TL/DR, I had given up after the first paragraph.

I think you may be describing the difference between newspaper-style journalism on the one hand and magazine-style journalism on the other.

That said, I pretty much agree with you. I've lost my patience for magazine-style journalism.

Certain kinds of good writing do. Many kinds do not.

It's safe to say the target audience of this piece was not the Hacker News demographic. More product dev detail would have lost most people. Unfortunately.

Thank you. I stopped reading after a few paragraphs in which the author discussed several different definitions of the word genius and where he listed things that Zuckerberg is not. It was pretty clear that the author was desperately trying to fill the pages.

The title looked suspicious to say the least. Thanks for taking the time to write this.

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