If this stretch of Facebook life seems chaotic in its random divagations, that’s because it was random and unpredictable. Life as a Facebook product manager was less being a lieutenant in some stolid industry juggernaut, and more being buffeted by constant external and internal forces. The external forces were the ever-present machinations of Google, the general temperature of the advertising world with respect to Facebook’s marketing offerings, and the fortunes of Facebook’s social media vision (e.g., were teenagers still using it?). The internal forces were the fluctuations in your standing
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