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Eugene Wei: Amazon adopted six-page memos to curb charismatic PowerPoint presenters
“The reason Amazon moved to the six-page memo process was in part because they felt like PowerPoint and the prevalence of PowerPoint in meetings gave too much power to charismatic speakers.”
Wei: All Western Social Networks Eventually Adopt Algorithmic Feeds
“And so all of Western social media eventually puts an algorithm over the feet to try to correct for errors. They're trying to restore high signal to noise.”
Wei: An Amazon recruiter hired him after saving his unqualified cover letter
“I wrote a super long cover letter. This is the era before companies had computers just screening resumes, and I wrote this really long, impassioned cover letter, and a recruiter read it and said, well, he's obviously not qualified for this job, but this cover …”