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“Jeff was super clear from the beginning,” says Neil Roseman. “If somebody else can sell it cheaper than us, we should let them and figure out how they are able to do it.”
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Om Malik: Bumper Sticker Gurus
open.spotify.comTeams of APMs were each given $50 to buy the weirdest gadgets they could find.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
“Short, not shallow,” is what we tell our reporters.
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
“At the end of this project, Sereus Dough Inc. has a robust, reliable plan for achieving higher throughput rates and lower maintenance times.”
David A. Fields • The Irresistible Consultant's Guide to Winning Clients: 6 Steps to Unlimited Clients & Financial Freedom
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay—a malleable material that users could reshape at will. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. When your tools don’t work the way you need them to, you submit feedback and hope for the best. You’re forced to adapt your workflow to fit your software, when it ... See more
Geoffrey Litt • Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
Dave Beran
@odelay
Wilke promised Bezos that he would reliably generate cost savings each year just by reducing defects and increasing productivity.