Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write (2018)

Post by milesward » Sun, Jul 28, 2019, 7:22 PM UTC

jayd16 wrote: post #36

pixelmonkey wrote: post #12

I wish one of Amazon's "Principles" were openness/transparency, because I think it'd be great to see some of the internal memos Bezos writes to colleagues and how they debate their thinking in writing. Amazon has always been a "skate where the puck is going" kind of company, unrivaled for customer obsession, and I think it'd be great to see their thinking on things like the Whole Foods acquisition, the Fire flop, the…

I'm told that Amazon meetings are focused around a prepared white paper on the subject at hand with 10 minutes of document reading at the start of the meeting. I find this idea fairly provocative and I'd love to see some of the documents in question.

Post by BurningFrog » Sun, Jul 28, 2019, 7:44 PM UTC

jsty wrote: post #39

BurningFrog wrote: post #32

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Writing was never part of my physics/CS degree, and I wouldn't have expected it to be. I did learn to write later by participating in internet forums like this one.

Was there no labs / project component that you needed to do lab reports or academic paper-style writeups for? I did joint Maths-Physics which was mostly theoretical and still had a fair amount of (technical) writing to do as part of my degree.

Post by emit_time » Sun, Jul 28, 2019, 11:07 PM UTC

yura wrote: post #44

emit_time wrote: post #40

One thing Tim Ferriss likes to talk about is how a difficult writing class he took lead to improved grades in all of his other classes, and he think it's attributed to the clarity in which he cultivated, and evaluated thoughts.

Did he ever mention the name of the class?

Post by unixhero » Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 12:13 PM UTC

rohan_shah wrote: post #6

1337biz wrote: post #5

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This is Jeff Bezos

Hi Jeff, how you doing?