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Gary Story

In the early days of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg ran his engineering teams under a four-word principle that became one of the most quoted and most misunderstood ideas in the...

Perfectionism

Gary Story

In the early days of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg ran his engineering teams under a four-word

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Perfectionism — The Macro Essay

Something has gone wrong with a generation of young people, and we have spent the better part of a decade arguing about who is responsible for fixing it.
The argument has produced very little fixing.
In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory calling youth mental health

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Perfectionism — The Primer

You have already met Tim.
The 7th grader whose mother called him lazy. Who qualified for USAMO and got into MIT. Whose mother sat across from me in my office, convinced the problem was discipline, while her son sat beside her — a prodigy who was quietly falling apart.<br

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Gary Story

In the early days of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg ran his engineering teams under a four-word principle that became one of the most quoted and most misunderstood ideas in the history of Silicon Valley.
Move fast and break things.
The people who understood it knew it was a statement

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