Facebook's seized files published by MPs
I worked at Facebook for 5 years on Workplace and Internal Tools.  I am typically very critical of the company nowadays, but even so find the discussion here difficult to digest.<p>People are complex.  They are more complex than an action, or even a group of actions.  To take a person and alias them into being &quot;good&quot; or &quot;bad&quot; based on an action or a series of actions is to explicitly <i>dehumanize</i> them for the sake of making the world simpler.  It is a poor model, and in a Dale-Carnegie-way it leads to poor outcomes, as you close the dialog with that person that allows you to change opinions and outcomes.  It is the same with groups or companies: some parts of groups do good from some vantage point, some do bad.<p>I found myself inspired by a lot of what Facebook did.  I loved working inside Infrastructure there, I was amazed by what people were innovating on every day.  Projects like charitable causes have raised a lot for charity.  I&#x27;ve seen the Are you Safe feature reduce so much stress during disasters.    I keep meaningful dialogs going with friends I don&#x27;t get to see often on FB and Instagram.  It makes me really happy to see my friends thriving.<p>One of Napoleon&#x27;s great gifts was in compartmentalizing pieces of his life.  His tumultuous and frankly soul-crushing personal life (which affected him deeply) with Josephine never got in the way of his military victories.  I wonder if that&#x27;s a good model, up-to-a-point for people and groups. With people, by compartmentalizing some unsavory perspective someone has, you have the ability to change it later on through discussion.<p>... in groups: if everyone good leaves organizations because they&#x27;re &quot;bad,&quot; well, those organizations will just be filled with the worst of us soon enough.