Aging & Wisdom Quote by Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg’s sentence has the tidy, managerial calm of a man trying to make a worldview sound like good product hygiene. On its face, it’s a Silicon Valley self-help mantra: seek “more people’s perspectives” to “learn and evolve,” then strip your life down to the essentials. The phrasing is doing two jobs at once: it signals openness while quietly defining the terms of that openness. “Perspectives” reads like a plural, but the verb that follows is singular and directional: you “grow more” in service of an objective. Diversity of input is framed less as moral exposure than as fuel for optimization.

The more interesting move is the pivot from personal development to corporate devotion: “live the mission of the company.” That’s not a slip; it’s the thesis. In the tech-founder genre, the company’s mission becomes the spine that holds the self together, a substitute for the messier ethics of power. “Extremely simple” is the tell: simplicity is sold as virtue, but it also functions as insulation. If everything outside the mission is minimized, there’s less friction, fewer competing loyalties, fewer moments where ordinary life might challenge the premise that building the platform is the highest good.

Context matters because “people’s perspectives” is also Facebook’s core resource: human experience captured, sorted, and monetized. In that light, the line reads like an elegant merger of personal brand and business model: growth through others, but on terms that keep the mission central and the world conveniently uncluttered.