How Facebook’s “Little Red Book” for its Employees will Change your Life

How Facebook’s “Little Red Book” for its Employees will Change your Life

A little red book appeared on the desks of all of Facebook’s employees after the company reached 1 Billion users in late 2012.  Little was known to the public until recently.  The book contains lots of motivational quotes explaining Facebook’s company mission, vision, culture, values, etc.

Former Facebook designer, Ben Barry, who created it, published a series of scans from the book, here they are:

Facebook was not originally created to be a company!
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It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

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The Little Red Books on the Company’s Shelves:

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Changing How People Communicate will Always Change the World:

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That means each Facebook engineer is responsible for approximately 1,000,000 people using Facebook!

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Moving Target, Myopic yet Long Term:

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The Admirable Company:

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Beautiful Printed Pages:

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Neither Snow, nor Rain, nor Heat, nor Gloom of Night Stays these Hackers from the Swift Completion of their Code:

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The Quick shall Inherit the Earth — Fast is better than Slow.

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When you don’t realise what you can’t do, you can do some pretty cool stuff:

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If you don’t do something, somebody else will:

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Barry and Everett Katigbak co-founded Facebook’s print studio – known as the Analog Research Lab!
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Original Source: Ben Barry’s Website

Miss QT started her career with Credit Suisse Investment Bank issuing Structured Products to Private Banks, and later joined UBS Private Bank where she spent the bulk of her career. She works at a Technology Hedge Fund that specializes in global technology investments. A graduate of Duke University, she holds two degrees from the School of Engineering, and double majored in Computer Science and Mathematics. She trades the Global Equities Market and conducts proprietary reesearch on Algorithmic Investing (from Quandl with over 10 million datasets to Multicharts) to improve investment decisions. During her free time, Miss QT plays Golf.