Relentless might be the most Amazonian word, but Bezos also talks about the virtues of wandering. “Wandering is an essential counterbalance to efficiency,” he wrote in a letter to shareholders this year. When I spoke with workers based at Amazon’s Seattle …
Once we have a rough idea of this, we should compare the estimate with the amount of work involved. We had a general idea of how long tasks would take. Bug fixes took half a day to a day, reports took two days to a week. And ad hoc data requests would take half a day.