A Pastry Chef's Inside View of Meta's Metaverse: Technology Is Not Magic

I used to work at Meta. Not in tech. God no. I was a pastry chef at one of the Meta data centers, which is somehow an even stranger sentence to say out loud now than it was at the time.

I worked in the cafes on campus making pastries, desserts, breads, and catering corporate events for the people building the infrastructure of the metaverse.

When I say 'the metaverse,' I do not mean that metaphorically. I mean the actual corporate vision of it. The servers. The engineers. The people building the guts of AI and virtual reality while I stood down the hall trying to figure out if the cinnamon rolls