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Amazon
- Kindle Cloud Reader
I use the Kindle desktop app a fair amount, usually for going back to books I've already read for reference, or to review highlights and make notes. It's always been a pretty bad application, with a strangely dated in…
- Weekend Reading: Honeycode, Imagery for Utilities, and BigQuery in Google Sheets
🍯 Amazon Honeycode AWS is making its entrance into the low-code app platform space. 🌲 Using satellite imagery to prioritize vegetation management for utilities Geoff Zeiss on combining satellite imagery and spatial…
- Kindle Features and Areas for Improvement
The Kindle launched in 2007, making ebooks accessible as a format not only because of a compelling device, but also a marketplace for content. Suddenly most books were available instantly for $10 a piece. No more trip…
- AWS re:Invent 2019
AWS’s re:Invent conference just wrapped last week. Since we’re so deep into AWS technologies, I keep an eye out each year on the trends visible in Amazon’s product launches. They move at breathtaking speed to fill out…
- Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write
I've linked before to pieces about Amazon's culture of long-form writing and memos in place of PowerPoint for meetings and conveying new business concepts. In their case, the discipline around this kind of thoroughnes…
- Invisible Asymptotes
Another fantastic piece from Eugene Wei on what he terms "invisible asymptotes" — the invisible barriers companies collide with in growth: One way to identify your invisible asymptotes is to simply ask your customers.…
- Writing Docs at Amazon
Amazon is famous for its "No PowerPoint" policy for meetings, requiring that those calling meetings for any new idea, project, or effort write a narrative document to describe the ins-and-outs of what's on the table f…
- HQ2: Understanding What Happened
This piece from Barry Ritholtz does a good job breaking down the real background behind the Amazon NYC HQ issues, how they were attracted and why they bailed: The heart of the opposition to Amazon was how much the cit…
- The Electricity Metaphor
During this TED talk from 2003, Jeff Bezos compares the Internet revolution to the early years of electrification. Even 15 years ago he was already describing the core philosophy behind his future products, like Amazo…
- Recent Links: Glue, Org Charts, and Patreon’s Growth
⚗️ Amazon Announces AWS Glue AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics. You simply point AWS Glue to your data…
- Weekly Links: Tensor Processing, Amazon, and Preventing Traffic Jams
Google's "Tensor Processing Unit" 💻 Google has built their own custom silicon dedicated to AI processing. The power efficiency gains with these dedicated chips is estimated to have saved them from building a dozen ne…
- Awesome AWS
A collection of excellent resources, documents, and tools for Amazon Web Services.