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Nobody pre-reads documents except in the course of writing the document, so the 20min focus time (I’ve seen this go to 40min sometimes) is really a blessing.

And it’s not just “management wisdom”- it’s “intentional culture”.

I felt that Amazon was a little creepy and maybe even a little cultish when I first started because of the intentionality of culture. They are very intentional about many aspects of corporate culture and the internal jargon continuously reinforces that. For example, you hear references to the leadership principles all the time (every day) and people will regularly use the term “Amazonian” when describing whether actions align with the cultural norms or not. But altogether it works and was a very interesting place to have worked.

They have their own dysfunctions, but I think that the way they manage their corporate culture intentionally is a good thing.