Mark Zuckerberg's daily routine as CEO of Meta – Business Insider
Between steering Meta through its “year of efficiency,” trying to popularize Threads, and engaging in a “will they, won’t they” with Elon Musk regarding an MMA cage-fight challenge, Mark Zuckerberg has a lot on his plate.
While the Facebook founder dedicates many hours to work, he still spends time traveling, tucking his kids in at night, and even bulking up through his pandemic-era hobbies of jiujitsu and mixed martial arts.
Zuckerberg also famously saves time and brainpower by nixing nonessential choices. Most notably, he wears the same outfit nearly every day.
Here’s a look at the typical daily routine of Zuckerberg, based on what he’s said in prior interviews:
The social-media session typically lasts only a few minutes but can take longer depending on current events, Zuckerberg said in a Facebook Live Q&A.
“The first thing I do is look at my phone. I look at Facebook to see what’s going on in the world,” he said. “It’s a pretty sad situation, to be honest. I have contacts, and I can’t see very well. And before I put my contacts in, I often look to see what is going on Facebook.”
Zuckerberg acknowledged that checking his phone first thing in the morning was a bad habit.
“You get like a million messages of stuff that come in, and it’s usually not good. People reserve the good stuff to tell me in person,” he told Joe Rogan last year. “It’s almost like you wake up and you’re punched in the stomach.” He added: “Now I need to go reset myself and be able to be productive and not be stressed out about this.”
“I used to run a lot, but the problem with running is you can think a lot,” he told Rogan last year.
Instead, he started asking himself: “What’s a thing that’s both super engaging physically but also intellectually, where you can’t afford to focus on something else? MMA is the perfect thing because if you stop paying attention for one second, you’re going to end up on the bottom.”
In June, he said on Lex Fridman’s podcast that he did three or four jiujitsu and MMA sessions weekly, in addition to strength and conditioning work and mobility training.
In July, Zuckerberg told McDonald’s on Threads that he wanted “20 nuggets, a quarter pounder, large fries, Oreo McFlurry, apple pie, and maybe some cheeseburgers for later?”
Zuckerberg sticks with the same outfit to reduce the brainpower spent on making minor decisions.
When asked about his wardrobe in 2014, he told an audience: “I really want to clear my life to make it so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community.”
“I spend most of my time thinking about how to connect the world and serve our community better, but a lot of that time isn’t in our office or meeting with people or doing what you’d call real work,” he told CNN in 2015.
“I take a lot of time just to read and think about things by myself,” he added. “If you count the time I’m in the office, it’s probably no more than 50 to 60 hours a week. But if you count all the time I’m focused on our mission, that’s basically my whole life.”
“I actually like trying to have a rule,” he told Forbes. “For every hour of meeting that I have, the team sends out the pre-reads in advance. I want to have at least an hour to read the materials and think about it. And then I want to have at least an hour to follow up with different people after the meeting.”
As for his approach to work, colleagues have likened Zuckerberg’s undivided attention to the Eye of Sauron.
Sauron, the chief antagonist in the “Lord of the Rings” series, is shown in some films as a flaming, disembodied eye, interpreted as a metaphor for evil, ever looming over Middle-earth.
“They’re like, ‘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,'” Zuckerberg told Tim Ferriss last year.
“I just think the engagement that you get of having, like, an immediate feedback loop around thinking about something and then getting to go talk to the people who are working on this is so much better than going and scheduling a meeting that you’ll have three weeks later,” he said.
He’s tried to learn Mandarin Chinese, he challenged himself in 2015 to read a new book every two weeks, and he’s hit the water on an electric surfboard, memeworthy amounts of sunscreen included.
He married his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, in 2012. Zuckerberg and Chan share three daughters, Maxima, August, and Aurelia.
“Sometimes they will read books together. Sometimes they’ll code together,” Chan said of Zuckerberg’s bedtime routine with the kids. “Mark has been doing that with August since she turned 3.”
Zuckerberg told Fridman last year about a “goodnight things” routine with his daughters.
“I basically go through with Max and Augie: ‘What are the things that are most important in life?'” he said.
He points out their health, friends and family, and having something they’re looking forward to.
Chan told Forbes that her husband also sang a Jewish prayer, Mi Shebeirach, to his kids and always tucked them in, unless he had a board meeting or was traveling. She added that his work dinners took place after the girls went to sleep.
“I don’t stay up super late at night,” he told Forbes, adding that he aimed for eight hours of sleep a night and used an Oura ring to track his rest.
Áine Cain and Taylor Nicole Rogers contributed to an earlier version of this story.
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While the Facebook founder dedicates many hours to work, he still spends time traveling, tucking his kids in at night, and even bulking up through his pandemic-era hobbies of jiujitsu and mixed martial arts.
Zuckerberg also famously saves time and brainpower by nixing nonessential choices. Most notably, he wears the same outfit nearly every day.
Here’s a look at the typical daily routine of Zuckerberg, based on what he’s said in prior interviews:
The social-media session typically lasts only a few minutes but can take longer depending on current events, Zuckerberg said in a Facebook Live Q&A.
“The first thing I do is look at my phone. I look at Facebook to see what’s going on in the world,” he said. “It’s a pretty sad situation, to be honest. I have contacts, and I can’t see very well. And before I put my contacts in, I often look to see what is going on Facebook.”
Zuckerberg acknowledged that checking his phone first thing in the morning was a bad habit.
“You get like a million messages of stuff that come in, and it’s usually not good. People reserve the good stuff to tell me in person,” he told Joe Rogan last year. “It’s almost like you wake up and you’re punched in the stomach.” He added: “Now I need to go reset myself and be able to be productive and not be stressed out about this.”
“I used to run a lot, but the problem with running is you can think a lot,” he told Rogan last year.
Instead, he started asking himself: “What’s a thing that’s both super engaging physically but also intellectually, where you can’t afford to focus on something else? MMA is the perfect thing because if you stop paying attention for one second, you’re going to end up on the bottom.”
In June, he said on Lex Fridman’s podcast that he did three or four jiujitsu and MMA sessions weekly, in addition to strength and conditioning work and mobility training.
In July, Zuckerberg told McDonald’s on Threads that he wanted “20 nuggets, a quarter pounder, large fries, Oreo McFlurry, apple pie, and maybe some cheeseburgers for later?”
Zuckerberg sticks with the same outfit to reduce the brainpower spent on making minor decisions.
When asked about his wardrobe in 2014, he told an audience: “I really want to clear my life to make it so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community.”
“I spend most of my time thinking about how to connect the world and serve our community better, but a lot of that time isn’t in our office or meeting with people or doing what you’d call real work,” he told CNN in 2015.
“I take a lot of time just to read and think about things by myself,” he added. “If you count the time I’m in the office, it’s probably no more than 50 to 60 hours a week. But if you count all the time I’m focused on our mission, that’s basically my whole life.”
“I actually like trying to have a rule,” he told Forbes. “For every hour of meeting that I have, the team sends out the pre-reads in advance. I want to have at least an hour to read the materials and think about it. And then I want to have at least an hour to follow up with different people after the meeting.”
As for his approach to work, colleagues have likened Zuckerberg’s undivided attention to the Eye of Sauron.
Sauron, the chief antagonist in the “Lord of the Rings” series, is shown in some films as a flaming, disembodied eye, interpreted as a metaphor for evil, ever looming over Middle-earth.
“They’re like, ‘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,'” Zuckerberg told Tim Ferriss last year.
“I just think the engagement that you get of having, like, an immediate feedback loop around thinking about something and then getting to go talk to the people who are working on this is so much better than going and scheduling a meeting that you’ll have three weeks later,” he said.
He’s tried to learn Mandarin Chinese, he challenged himself in 2015 to read a new book every two weeks, and he’s hit the water on an electric surfboard, memeworthy amounts of sunscreen included.
He married his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, in 2012. Zuckerberg and Chan share three daughters, Maxima, August, and Aurelia.
“Sometimes they will read books together. Sometimes they’ll code together,” Chan said of Zuckerberg’s bedtime routine with the kids. “Mark has been doing that with August since she turned 3.”
Zuckerberg told Fridman last year about a “goodnight things” routine with his daughters.
“I basically go through with Max and Augie: ‘What are the things that are most important in life?'” he said.
He points out their health, friends and family, and having something they’re looking forward to.
Chan told Forbes that her husband also sang a Jewish prayer, Mi Shebeirach, to his kids and always tucked them in, unless he had a board meeting or was traveling. She added that his work dinners took place after the girls went to sleep.
“I don’t stay up super late at night,” he told Forbes, adding that he aimed for eight hours of sleep a night and used an Oura ring to track his rest.
Áine Cain and Taylor Nicole Rogers contributed to an earlier version of this story.
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