My 6.6k word summary of Amazon's Working Backwards is up: commoncog.com/blog/working-b
My hope is that you'll find this useful.
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Just a couple of quick links.
's post on the 'anatomy of an Amazon six pager' was ridiculously helpful, and I recommend you check it out: writingcooperative.com/the-anatomy-of
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I also liked 's Things I Liked About Amazon, which — amongst other things — articulated what it was like to be a metrics owner and run through a WBR.
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10 lessons from 10 years of Amazon Web Services was written in 2016 by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, and remains a good retrospective on a service that changed the world: allthingsdistributed.com/2016/03/10-les
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And then there's the bit about Bezos's services mandate in Steve Yegge's Google Platforms rant: gist.github.com/chitchcock/128
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I think I'm done with Amazon for a bit; now it's time to put some of these ideas to practice.
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