Sitemap - 2022 - Fact of the Day 1
December 14: A Really Hard Thing
December 13: Focus on your audience’s interests
December 12: Two truths about customer service
December 7: Gender Diversity by Tech Company
December 5: Remote jobs are in demand, but positions are drying up
November 30: 4 Mechanisms at Amazon
November 29: The Case Against Collaboration
November 28: Distributed Computing Manifesto
RE: November 23: Jeff Bezos on acquiring Ring
November 23: Jeff Bezos on acquiring Ring
November 22: Software Engineering Behaviors by Level
November 21: Amazon’s Self-Service Platforms
November 16: Where’s my stuff?
November 15: Ballots Returned by Age Group
November 14: Own your dependency
November 9: Amazon’s Delivery Promise for pink iPods
November 8: Gen Z’s Favorite Brands Compared to Older Generations
November 7: # of Open Jobs at Tech Companies
November 2: A scene from a 2003 Amazon S-Team Meeting
November 1: Digital-influenced retail sales
October 31: Biggest Tech Stock Declines
October 26: Tips for Amazon Writers
October 25: A week without meetings
October 24: Amazon at a high-level
October 19: People we try to please
October 18: Minimalist UX Design Tips
October 17: Amazon’s Key Businesses and Products
October 12: Measuring Career Success
October 11: The most regretted college majors
October 10: DRY: a principle of software development
October 5: Differences by Country - Emotion and Confrontation
Re: October 4: The Densest Talent Hubs in the U.S.
Re: October 4: The Densest Talent Hubs in the U.S.
October 4: The Densest Talent Hubs in the U.S.
October 3: The Biggest Tech Talent Hubs in the U.S.
September 28: How many humans have ever lived?
September 27: Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company
September 26: The Ten Essentials for Hiking
September 21: Go Join the Startup
September 20: What egg labels really mean
September 19: Email from Steve Jobs to himself
September 15: Maslow's hierarchy of needs
September 14: Dark Mode or Light Mode
September 13: The Health Benefits of Fermented Foods
September 12: How To Sell (as an early stage company)
September 8: Crafting Proposals Using The Heilmeier Catechism
September 7:Percent of U.S. Teens Using Social Media Apps
September 6: Native Speakers of the World
September 1: The Current and Future State of APIs
August 31: US Unicorn Founders by Country of Origin
August 30: Top 10 US Newspaper Circulations
August 29: What you can change
August 25: Talent Reviews at Amazon: Tips for Individual Contributors
August 24: Talent Reviews at Amazon: Tips for People Managers
August 23: When everything feels overwhelming
August 22: The Parable of the Businesswoman and the Fisherman
August 18: U.S. E-Commerce Annual Run Rate, 2001 to 2022
August 17: Tips for Managing a Remote Team
August 16: Grocery Market Share, Q1 2022
August 15: 5 Steps to Write an Amazon Promo Doc
August 10: How American Households Have Changed Since the 1970s
August 9: Learn Difficult Concepts with the ADEPT Method
August 8: Understanding the Pareto Principle (The 80/20 Rule)
August 4: When Making a Decision, Share the Why
August 3: Dairy vs. plant-based milk: what are the environmental impacts?
July 27: APIs instead of meetings
July 26: Using the Amazon Leadership Principles outside of Amazon
July 25: Crafting your business’s hook
July 21: DoorDash customer loyalty drives market share gains
July 20: State of Software Engineers: pay, skills, and favorite languages
July 19: Vegetarian, vegan, or flexitarian
July 18: Big, emotional moments bring teams together
July 13: Qualities amongst the best product managers
July 12: How to write a blurb for your startup
July 11: Investment Memo: YouTube
July 7: Meta slashes hiring plans among fierce headwinds
July 6: What do Technical Program Managers do?
July 5: A tale of a self-funded, bootstrapped startup
June 30: Amazon Marketplace Grows Faster than Amazon Retail
June 28: Measuring China’s Development: 1949, 1978, and 2018
June 27: Children and smartphones
June 23: Giving your boss the right amount of context
June 22: Amazon employee vs stock growth
June 21: Questions to Ask at the End of an Interview
June 20: 5 World War II innovations we still use today
June 14: That’s a lot of packages to deliver
June 13: Comparing eBay and Amazon in 1999
June 9: To pre-rinse or not to pre-rinse dishes?
June 8: Clarification versus Challenge questions
June 7: The end of remote work at Tesla
June 6: More than half of Americans live within an hour of extended family
[Success Story] How Misbah found her new role at Amazon
June 1: Celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month
May 31: Amazon Exec Pay Packages
May 30: Tips for healthy sleep
May 25: No sign of widespread ‘Zoom fatigue’ in U.S. workers
May 24: Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine sales
May 23: Making Sense of the MVP
May 19: Global Internet Ad Spend
May 18: Plastic waste recycling
May 17: Adoption of plant-based meat (part 2 of 2)
May 16: Adoption of plant-based meat (part 1 of 2)
May 12: Tech sector value decline
May 11: Got Milks? Breaking Down the Differences
May 10: Redfin’s Balance of Meeting In Person While Working Remotely
May 6: Airbnb employees can live and work anywhere
May 4: Top mobile apps by generation
May 3: ABCs of Corporate Senescence
April 28: Container Shipping Rates, China to the U.S.
April 27: Stripe’s 2021 Annual Update
April 26: Ben Franklin’s Schedule
April 22: Sorting tomatoes using machine learning
RE: April 21: Why American Teens Are So Sad
April 21: Why American Teens Are So Sad
April 19: MacKenzie Scott gives billions—again
April 18: North American Crane Index
April 14: Organic vs paid search results on Amazon
April 13: SaaS applications per team
April 12: U.S. Venture Capital Deal Growth
April 11: Fastest-Growing States in the U.S.
April 8: Cryptocurrency performance in 2021
April 7: Adults are remaining childless
April 6: The growing demand for technical talent
April 4: Start writing with a Mind Map
April 1: Post-pandemic stock drop
March 31: Amazon Marketplace is 25% of U.S. e-commerce
March 30: What Is Strategy? (Part 2 of 2)
March 29: What Is Strategy? (Part 1 of 2)
March 25: Top digital advertising platforms in 2021
March 24: National Gas Prices, 2019-2022
March 23: If California were a country
March 22: Five food waste facts
March 21: Top US grocers by share of total dollars spent
March 18: Amazon Closing Retail Stores
March 17: Consumers throw out 35% of their food
March 16: Writing is a process
March 15: How Americans view climate change
March 14: Mental Models with an example
March 11: Government spending on childcare
March 10: Apple’s revolutionary user interfaces
March 9: Getting a senior leader to take action
March 8: 1 out of every 135 American workers is employed by Amazon
March 7: Billions have never used the internet
March 4: Top 10 Shopping Apps Globally
March 3: Small minorities influence the masses
March 1: Amazon’s Ad Business Is Huge
February 28: 5 Things Learned While Unemployed
February 25: The World’s Most Used Emojis
February 24: Microsoft’s Unprecedented Climate Commitment
February 23: How Amazonians share their ideas: 1-pager and 6-pager
February 22: Stepping outside of your comfort zone
February 21: Clear project confusion with a RACI
February 18: Music Streaming Marketshare
February 17: Staving off climate catastrophe
February 16: Care for yourself before caring for others
February 15: Who Spends the Most on R&D? Amazon.
February 14: Amazon as a role model for climate action
February 11: Inflation: what’s rising the most?
February 10: Elon Musk’s email calling for productivity
February 8: Increase Personal Effectiveness with a 90-Minute Plan
February 7: The hardest-to-fill roles
February 4: Top 10 venture rounds in crypto & blockchain
February 3: Get to stepping (and sweating)
February 2: Screen time statistics
February 1: Inflation rate per country in 2021
January 28: Measuring the popularity of a term over time
January 27: An invention appreciated 200 years later
January 26: Global Cloud vs On-Prem Spending
January 25: When and how to escalate an issue at work
January 24: An Email to all Tesla Employees
January 21: How China is trying to unaddict kids from social media
January 20: The Feynman Learning Technique
January 19: “Non-negotiables,” letters from Theranos
Free at-home COVID-19 tests for Americans
January 18: Elon Musk's approach to complex problem solving
January 17: Focus on the inputs, measure the outputs
January 14: China reducing video game time for minors
January 13: Bill Gates’ resume in 1974
January 12: Community-driven businesses
January 11: YCombinator’s Motto
January 10: The dramatic headcount growth of select companies
January 7: AWS revenue (2013 to 2021)
January 6: 16% of Americans have invested in crypto