Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is preparing to cut about 5% of its global workforce, as the company looks to drop "low performers faster".On a recent podcast with Joe Rogan, Mr Zuckerberg said he thought companies needed more "masculine energy" and discussed taking up martial arts, which he said he enjoyed because he felt he could more fully express himself, than in his corporate role.
"When you're running a company, people typically don't wanna see you being like this ruthless person who's just like I'm gonna crush the people I'm competing with," he said. "But when you're fighting, it's like no."
"I think in some ways when people see me competing in the sport they're like oh no, 'That's the real Mark."
As much as I respect jiu-jitsu technically, the laissez-faire ethics leads to stuff like this. Some jiu-jitsu gyms aren’t like this at all and are about helping people get better and encouraging them to help others. But because the martial art overall doesn’t say anything about this,
some of them are about tough guy posturing. Certainly, BJJ coaches paid to make a billionaire feel tough aren’t even going to try to instill any sort of help-each-other-out attitude.
Judo has only two principles: mutual welfare and benefit and maximum efficiency with minimum effort. Stating that up front and making it easy to point to is hugely helpful for creating an atmosphere you actually want to be in that is genuinely good for helping people get better at lots of things, including competition.