Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Matt Cohler, VP Strategy and Business Operations Facebook on Enso 2007
Met with Matt Cohler, VP Strategy and Business Operations, Facebook over white pomegranate tea and radish mint butter cucumber sandwiches. He arrived clad in a zipfront JAPAN non-hoodie, a bold rising sun emblazoned on his back. We traversed sumi-e, technology, social networking, and music. His response to Enso 2007 was that he liked its absence of hierarchy. In the bold brush stroke encircling the space, simultaneously empty and full, he noted a decentralized quality lacking in traditional Western compositions. We here in Silicon Valley are pushing the world towards decentralization, he said, and that's a good thing.