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It may seem surprising that a corporate executive is able to read and write, but research shows that literacy among CEOs is rapidly increasing. According to the IMF, executive literacy rates are on target to pass 50% by as early as 2022. Of course, there are still many challenges to overcome, but I think we can agree that Jeff's story here is an inspiration to many around the world.
Wish I hadn’t read that Prime is going to $119 from $99. Maybe I’ll start doing the free shipping thing instead.
It may seem surprising that a corporate executive is able to read and write, but research shows that literacy among CEOs is rapidly increasing. According to the IMF, executive literacy rates are on target to pass 50% by as early as 2022. Of course, there are still many challenges to overcome, but I think we can agree that Jeff's story here is an inspiration to many around the world.
It may seem surprising that a corporate executive is able to read and write, but research shows that literacy among CEOs is rapidly increasing. According to the IMF, executive literacy rates are on target to pass 50% by as early as 2022. Of course, there are still many challenges to overcome, but I think we can agree that Jeff's story here is an inspiration to many around the world.
His texts to his mistress were much worse than each of these examples which I find hard to explain. Is Jeff going senile? Serious question.
> Amazon Prime subscriptions have topped 100M I'm not surprised. I had trouble stopping them giving me free subscriptions for a week or a month at a time. The kicker is it automatically rolls over into a paid subscription so I need to keep my wits about me in case I've been signed up. I wrote to them many times saying I don't want to be signed up to Prime. They always apologise and cancel my subscription but then it…
This is how I wound up an Audible subscriber for two years without knowing. I only found out when the card I had on file with Audible (& Amazon) expired and they charged my sister's card that she had used once on my Amazon Prime account and had since been deleted as a payment method.
I happened to be in the middle of a year-long backpacking trip at the time otherwise I'm sure I would have needed to update my card info with Amazon for one reason or another and then I wonder if I ever would have noticed the Audible charges at all.
It always shocked me how bad most people were at writing having completed a university degree. Just a simple ability to state a claim and then explain why it is true is often out of reach.
But I think good writing requires a bit of empathy, and that's something that's hard to teach.
Most bad technical writing I see fails to define the terms it uses (or uses them sloppily). That's a failure of empathy -- I know this word so I assume everyone else does. I know what I mean by "design" so I assume everyone else does.
Another way to phrase it is the "curse of knowledge". Once people have some knowledge, it's hard for them to imagine that somebody else doesn't have it. Without that imagination, you can't write about clearly.
And a lot of the times people don't believe a claim is true because of "reasoning". They believe it because they heard someone they trust say it, or it was repeated on TV or online until it stuck. (I don't claim to be exempt from that, but I can reflect on whether I have direct experience or it’s hearsay.)
>There was no centralized repository of all the letters, so I decided to collect all of them here. I’ll keep updating this list every year. Let me know your feedback/ideas regarding this collection. This is bullshit, there are many sites hosting the letters. Literally the first google hit [1]. [1] https://www.cbinsights.com/research/bezos-amazon-shareholder...
It always shocked me how bad most people were at writing having completed a university degree. Just a simple ability to state a claim and then explain why it is true is often out of reach.