Sitemap - 2020 - Fact of the Day 1
December 30: Amazon named low price leader
December 29: What else would you like Amazon to sell?
December 28: Missionaries over Mercenaries
December 24: Odin, Thor, and Amazon Customer Service
December 23: Undifferentiated heavy lifting
[Invite] Get your laptop stickers
December 18: Timeline of History
December 17: Reasons for losing loyalty
December 16: When Pursuing New Businesses
December 15: Global internet users
December 14: Distributed work at Google
December 11: Algorithm aversion (Behavioral Economics)
December 10: Framing effect (Behavioral Economics)
December 9: Authority bias (Behavioral Economics)
December 8: Mental accounting (Behavioral Economics)
December 7: Behavioral Economics: Status quo bias
December 4: The top secret iPod
December 2: A Product Metrics Primer
November 30: URL2Video by Google AI
November 27: A wholesome customer review
November 25: My job as CEO of Amazon
November 24: How Airbnb validated a hypothesis
November 23: Three questions to ask when hiring
November 20: The Most Popular Social Networks
November 19: How to use an Appendix
November 18: Amazon’s Approach
November 17: One-way and Two-way Doors
November 16: The Pomodoro Technique
November 13: The Most Popular YouTube Videos
November 12: The History of Technology
November 11: Customer-centricity at Amazon
November 10: Improving User Interview Questions
November 9: COVID-19 Testing Rate by Country
November 6: This Planet is a Gem
November 5: Earth Overshoot Day
November 4: A precursor to taking risks
November 3: Big things start small
November 2: A bicycle for our minds
Mental Models: Second-Order Thinking
Mental Models: First Principles
Parenting Children in the Age of Screens
A response to How answering a movie fan's question turned into IMDb
October 16: How answering a movie fan's question turned into IMDb
October 15: Offering Heartfelt Praise
October 14: Punctuation Refresher
October 13: When We are Criticized
October 9: Leadership Style as a Company Scales
October 2: When Satellites Collide
October 1: Blue Origin’s Mission
September 29: Internet Access in the US
September 28: Office Chairs in the Age of the Remote Worker
September 25: Amazon Summer Party in 2000
September 24: The Value of Wine (Part 2 of 2)
September 23: The Value of Wine (Part 1 of 2)
September 22: Jeff Bezos's Pioneering Approach
September 17: Ship It Before You Are Ready
September 16: Expectations are a Moving Target
September 15: What Job Seekers in the US are saying
September 14: Data Breach Investigations Report
September 11: Analytics Maturity
September 10: Earthquake Detection on Your Phone
September 9: Audience Discovery Versus Durability
September 4: Net Promoter Score
September 3: The Five Love Languages
September 2: I've Seen Small Things Get Big
September 1: How to Select Your Mask
August 28: Amazon Two-Pizza Teams
August 27: Workplace engagement during COVID-19
August 25: Escalation of commitment
August 21: An interview with Jeff Wilke
August 19: Fortnite takes a stand
August 18: Growth of the internet
August 17: The power of wandering
August 14: Business Chemistry's four types
August 12: Executive decision making at Amazon
August 10: COVID-19 online grocery shopping
August 7: The story of DoorDash
August 6: The worst year in history
August 5: Why websites load slowly
August 4: The internet is faster, but websites aren't
August 3: Booking.com goes to the Supreme Court
July 31: Coronavirus and sleep
July 30: Instagram's quick turnaround
July 29: America’s first murder trial
July 28: Popular programming languages
Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners
In the end, we are our choices
Online Information-Seeking Behaviors
Collective Guilt vs. Collective Responsibility
Illustrations Addressing Imbalance
AWS Well-Architected Framework
Relational vs Non-Relational Databases
American Public Transportation
Why Are They Called Fermi Questions?
AI Implementation Among Organizations
World Toilet Paper Consumption
How Amazon is Taking Care of Employees During COVID-19
Innovations To Defeat COVID-19
The World’s Most Expensive Cities
But Who Are Harbinger Customers?
Scaling Workloads To Save Lives
Understanding Team Effectiveness
Growing and Declining Product Categories (March 2020 vs. March 2019)
Impact on Digital Communications
3 Brands Expressing Compassion
Automation to Put the Customer First
Growing and Declining Consumer Interest
Voting Machine Versus Weighing Machine
From Magnetrons to the Microwave
Greenhouse Gas Emissions By Food
Global Scheduled Aviation Capacity
How Mobile Devices Affect Daily Life
You’re Going to Let Anybody Take Amazon Traffic?
Behind the Fact: An Analysis of Amazon’s Patents
Behind the Fact: An Analysis of Amazon’s Patents
Streaming Distribution By Brand
The Electricity Metaphor for the Web’s Future
Cannabis Use Among Older Adults
Travel Trends Among Generations
Amazon Holiday Gifts to Customers
Stubborn on Vision and Flexible on Details
Amazon Seller Growth Opportunities and Challenges
Why Amazon Can Start Businesses From Scratch
African Americans and the Vote
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
Social Media Monthly Active Users
Privacy and Control Over Personal Information
A Historical Anecdote of Good Judgement
Amazon Invents a Shipping Holiday
Empower Others to Unleash Their Creativity
Cloud Infrastructure Services Market
Phrases in Tech Job Descriptions
Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning
Track and Receive Holiday Deliveries
Major Events in Amazon’s History
AWS Machine Learning Explained (with examples)
The Fastest Growing Brands of 2019
Holiday Delivery Speed and Reliability
Selection Among Major Streaming Services
Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud
Outlook Calendar Invites: OOTO and WFH
Amazon’s Logo Through the Years
American Positivity About Small Businesses
Electronic Commerce Catapults with Powerful New Features (from 1997)
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
How to Clear Project Confusion with a RACI
How to Adjust Your Office Chair
Retail Square Footage Per Person
Top Websites by Traffic, Worldwide
Using Satellite Images to Bet on Retailers
Email Statistics Worldwide, 2018
Tech Companies and Surge Pricing
Massive Scale Online Collaboration
Latin Phrases You Can Use Daily
Learnings From Readers’ Perspectives
China’s Growth in Artificial Intelligence Research
The Lack of Social Interaction in Social Media
John Snow and the Broad Street Pump (1854)
Why Starbucks Loves Gift Cards
3 Questions to Ask During a Hiring Meeting
Amazon Physical Stores Breakdown
Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Sector
Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness
Literate and Illiterate World Population
Natural Language Processing Overview
The Effect of Online Shopping on Grocery Demand
The Happiest Countries in the World
“Don’t just swipe right, get married.” — Jeff Bezos
U.S. Store Closures in H1 2019
Prime Video Wins Big at the Emmys
Alibaba’s Singles’ Day ($1B in the First 68 Seconds)
Inequality of Dating App Likes
They’d Have Locked Us Up As Dangerous
Factors Driving Purchasing Decisions on Amazon
Seller Central Versus Vendor Central
Dealing With Unexpected Expenses
Using a Gantt Chart to Manage Projects
The Prevalence of Disabilities
Most Valuable Brands in the World
The Israeli Childcare Experiment
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Per Capita
India’s Reduction of Extreme Poverty
Wake Up Every Morning Terrified
The Beauty of Amazon’s 6-Pager
Desktop and Mobile E-Commerce Growth
Amazon Consumer Behavior Report
Capital Efficiency of Amazon Retail
How Does Your Firm Use Social Media?
How We Write a Working Backwards Document
World Internet Usage and Population
Highest Grossing Blockbusters of All-Time
Passenger Fatalities per Billion Passenger Miles
Minutes Spent Per Day TV vs. Mobile Devices
10 AWS Products Explained Simply
Social Media Actions by Platform
Reasons for Cart Abandonment During Checkout
Building a Product at Amazon for People with a Disability
The Internet Has Changed How Couples Meet
Understanding Your Size of Market at Amazon
(Happy Prime Day!): The Rapid Growth of Hard Seltzer
Most Desired Apartment Features (Pet-Friendly Tops the Chart)
Prime Day Extends Beyond Amazon
How a Janitor at Frito-Lay Invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos
How Devices (Phones and Tablets) Affect Daily Life
In-Store Traffic and Mobile Customers
3 Year Growth and Sales Mix of Amazon
Does the News Reflect What We Die From?
Fortnite — The New Social Media
Merchant Apps on U.S. Consumers’ Smartphones
Amazon Employee Growth Over Time
The 10 Largest Private U.S. Companies
Who are Amazon’s 10 Board of Directors?
Podcasts — From Niche Internet Community to One-Third of Americans
Amazon’s $232.9B of Revenue in 2018
The Lichen Loophole: “I tried to negotiate with them” — Jeff Bezos
Amazon’s 142M Square Feet of U.S. Distribution Infrastructure
Amazon Logistics and Delivery Services Explained
“Such things aren’t meant to be easy.” — Jeff Bezos, 1997
Computer Abbreviations Explained
Avenger’s: Endgame [No spoilers]
International Working Mother’s Day
E.g. versus I.e. — What’s the Difference?
What is 5G? An Executive Summary
The Cost of University Education
Women in U.S. Elected Office 2019
Project Zero to Drive Counterfeits on Amazon to Zero
Where Does it Go? (Compost and Recycling and Garbage, oh my!)
Another Data Point of How Technology is Enabling the Massive Direct to Consumer (D2C) Trend
“Third-party sellers are kicking our first party butt. Badly.” — Jeff Bezos
Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset (& a Quote from Sayta Nadella)
The Impact of “Badges” in Search on Amazon
Tradeoffs as an Amazon Seller & Vendor
Your Almond Milk Purchase is Impacting Dairy Farmers
Retailers’ Omnichannel Prioritization
Brick and Mortar Store Closures Accelerate in 2019
The 12 Most Expensive Acquisitions by Amazon
Connect@Amazon Hosts their Biggest Event of the Year Today
Racial Profile of the US Population in 2045
Amazon’s First Affinity Group (& Jeff B’s Response)
SEO Marketers ❤️ Shopping at Whole Foods Market
Who is Gen Z & Why do They Matter?
Trends in Seller Collaboration
“Influencers” on Social Media are the New Movie Stars
Changing Supply Chains for Retailers (The Biggest Challenge is Becoming Omni-channel)
March Madness to Cost U.S. Employers $13.3B
E-com Product Quality Satisfaction, n=62K US Customers
Target Announces a Curated Third-Party Marketplace, “Target+”
That’s a Lot of Cement and Steel!” — Bill Gates
Smart Speaker Report in the U.S.
Open Source Contributors by Organization
Stream Services Adopting by US Households
Today’s College Student (U.S.)
Amazon Launches Live-Stream Shopping (Like a Cross Between QVC & Twitch)
Podcasting and Audiobook Stats (Think Audible & Amazon Music)
International Women’s Day is Tomorrow (& Amazon has 89 Events Planned)
Amazon Locker + Coachella (Music Festival in California with 250K Attendance)
Africa is the Youngest Continent (Just Look at Kids Aged 0–4)
Median Age of TV Viewer, by Channel
Greenhouse Gas Emissions, by Sector
What’s the Value of Community? (the Market Says High)
Merchants Rate Top Online Marketplaces (Amazon Drops from #1 Rank in 2018)
Shopify’s Noteworthy Growth (Compared to eBay)
Texas has had the Power to Split into 5 States for 150 Years
Amazon Private Label Sales: Massive Growth Ahead
Voice Assistant Usage to Surge
Fedex Introduces Late-Night Shipping
The Love ❤️ — and Consumer Cash — is Flowing
Amazon to Acquire eero (Home WiFi)
Percentage of US E-commerce Sales
Market Cap of the Top 8 U.S. Retailers
Businesses of Amazon from the 2017 Shareholder’s Letter
Follow up: Is a Burrito a Sandwich?
Starbucks App Leads Mobile Payment Competitors (& learnings from yesterday’s survey)
A Breakdown of Sales by Marketplace Sellers (Estimates from a 3P source)
Corporate Wealth Consolidation — 1978 vs. 2015
Email Statistics Report (A Meta Fact for an Email List)
2018 Amazon Stores Highlights (An Integral Part of Amazon’s DNA)
We’re Living in a Mobile First World
Prime Membership Estimates (From a third-party research firm)
US Digital Ad Market (Could it grow bigger than AWS?)
The Origins of Leadership Principles
The Future for Amazon Sellers, Part II
The Most Impressive Economic Rise in History
How Customers Use Mobile Phones In-store
Customer Ordering During the Holiday
Wall Street and Amazon Customer Reviews
Marketplaces Win Repeat Purchases
2018 Top Holiday Destinations for U.S. Travelers
Third-party Sellers (3P) Lead Amazon’s Revenue Growth
Major Events in Amazon’s History
Building Products at Amazon for People with Disabilities
Looking Forward to 2019 (from the perspective of Amazon Sellers)
China’s Obsession with Short Videos (Think 10 second clips)
Chinese Sellers Building Brands on Amazon
Lessons Learned as a $1.3M/year Seller
Fears and Favorites of Amazon Sellers
Fast Retail (The top 1% of products generate 22% of retailer’s revenue)
Marketplace Personas (as described by sellers)
Sellers’ Strategies to Increase Revenue