Gell-Mann amnesia also works for biography. If you’ve ever been profiled or spotlighted, you know the cleaned-up (or maliciously smeared) version of you is nothing like your real life.
Yet you take profiles of others seriously unless they’re egregious puff pieces or hit jobs.
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Zuck would cite this wayback in 2014 to remind everyone that what press writes isn't the reality. This was in context of some pieces that describe the horrible culture at Amazon.

