[felixgallo]

You're missing the fundamental point. Early Amazon succeeded because it created an evangelical corporate culture of (my words) not permitting inane bullshit, falsity, dress-up, and cargo culting to infect its communications and processes. The Leadership Principles were set up as an intentional immune system to stave off what we now call enshittification. The rigid document and meeting structures were set up to focus on the facts and details rather than fonts and colors and theater.

All of that is orthogonal to diversity in thinking. I spent nearly a decade at Amazon, and I encountered a great deal of diverse thought and communication styles; the systems enhanced that, rather than suppressed it. As long as the baseline standards of clarity, factuality, and logic were upheld, people were free to make arbitrarily creative arguments. Standing in front of a 50-word powerpoint slide with colors and reciting it would not have improved anyone's thought process or enlightened the audience any faster or better.

[_DeadFred_]

Didn't early Amazon use doors for desks? Forget ergonomics, forget making sure tools are fit for purpose. Seems contradictory.

[slowmovintarget]

Deliberately avoiding a tool that typically results in superficial communications seems on point to me.

I don't think your reductio ad absurdum works here.

[_DeadFred_]

"not permitting inane bullshit, falsity, dress-up, and cargo culting"

Except for the performative austerity of executives building desks out of doors. That’s theater, not clarity.