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“ What's next for me? Something small. Something new. Something I don't fully understand yet. Something uncomfortable. I could have moved to something else inside Meta. But I needed to know what's out there. I needed to do something small again. I couldn't live with the counterfactual regret of never trying something outside Meta.”

Shades of Siddhartha. Back to the forest.

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Ah yes, shades of Siddhartha. I almost forgot about the part where he worked for a megacorp that was ripping society’s social fabric apart and wanted to do something else for a while.

I don't think he was involved in that though.

He was. he didn't just parachute in Meta to start working on PyTorch. he worked in many areas of the product and a member of the senior technical staff, was knowledgable about many aspects of the company.

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