Mark Zuckerberg Called Eye of Sauron by Employees – Learn English with the News

Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t always had a great reputation between the general public and his employees. Over the years everyone has come up with interesting nicknames for him, but this one takes the cake.

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Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t always had a clean reputation, and the Facebook/Meta founder and CEO has accrued a slew of less-than-flattering nicknames throughout his career. But during his recent appearance on The Tim Ferriss Show, he shared an illuminating label given to him by his own employees: The Eye of Sauron.

Zuckerberg brought up the moniker after he began discussing how he manages his energy in the workplace while constantly being barraged with news and information. “Maybe I’m not strong-willed enough or calm enough to do just straight-up meditation,” Zuckerberg said. “I actually need to put myself in a situation where it’s difficult to not focus on that thing.”

He continued: “Some of the folks I work with at the company — they say this lovingly — but I think that they sometimes refer to my attention as the Eye of Sauron. You have this unending amount of energy to go work on something, and if you point that at any given team, you will just burn them.”

For those who haven’t traveled to Middle-earth in a couple of Ages, the Eye of Sauron is a manifestation of the titular Lord of the Rings. Without delving too deeply into fantasy lore, it is nefarious, and bad things happen when it notices you. Zuckerberg’s computer nerd demeanor doesn’t quite scream “Dark Lord” per se, but it is hard to deny the comparison between his semi-autocratic mode of operation and that of the Eye.