
…he past makes it easy to doubt whether anything is worthwhile at all. As Arthur Schopenhauer writes, ‘For that which in a moment ceases to exist, which vanishes as completely as a dream, cannot be worth any serious effort.’ (On the Suffering of the World, Arthur Schopenhauer.) We spend most of our lives in a state of endless striving for satisfaction; and once we achieve t…
…As John Rossman, an alumnus of the company who wrote a book called Think Like Amazon, described it, “If you can’t write it out, then you’re not ready to defend it.” The six-pagers are consumed at the beginning of meetings in what Bezos has called a “study hall” at…