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Book review: "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon" by Brad Stone

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I f you could get an idea of limitless possibilities, what would you have done differently? You see, Amazon wasn't always this good. It took amazon weeks to deliver most items to its customers and for scarcer title it could take months. With all this going on, Amazon's profits were thin. When Bezos started the company, he chose Seattle because of the city's reputation as a technology hub. Also, it was very close to its two major book distributors. Kaphans, who is sometimes considered a co-founder of Amazon, tapped a fortune–cookie message to the pc monitor on his desk that reads, "let no man alter your code".                Considering certain situations in life or in any business where your resolve is been tested,  your code can be altered, especially when you are on the weak side of the spectrum.  One thing I have come to appreciate is not only the contribution of  Shel kaphan (even though Bezos assured him that he could have the ...
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  I didn't get to watch much of Shark Tank, but I have been spending most of my leisure  watching Dragons' Den. And I can't stop opening my mouth in amazement after hearing  some of ideas that were tabled before the Dragons'. Though some of the idea sounded stupid, a handful of them were really good, but because of one or two misalignment, all their well crafted pitch went into the toilet–the Dragons' won't grant their request. There was these two guys that came, I really feel sad that they had to come to that show to ask for support. They had a valuable idea, and the fact that they demonstrated it sounds more convincing, but because, they've not yet transformed it into a product, which was why they came, they were not giving any offer, not even the one they asked for–all the Dragons' opted-out. I still find it incredibly painful, I could see the pain in their eyes, but the other guy masked it well. Thanks to chemical ENDORPHIN. There was this other guy ...

You've been told to think for yourself, but really you can't

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Bode was opportuned to work in a school. In the class he taught, he had an assistant–They both assistant one another. This day, Lola went to the front of the classroom, moved to the board with chalk in her hand. In the next few minutes, she's done writing some Math  problems to be solved. Then she turn to the kid's. "Who can tell me the answer?", she said. Bode seeing that, his head went, wait! What? Now, if it were to be Mr. Chan, he might not really bother. He knew Mr. Chan would have done that as means to stimulate the pupils brain. But Bode had worked with Lola for sometimes now to know enough about her approach. So he called her attention. "This kids know nothing yet", he said. "They can't think by themselves. All they can do is, garbage in garbage out." Now, this is not about the kids or Lola, neither is it about Bode. It's about all of us.  When people say "think for yourself!" I  wonder if they really know what they meant....
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  Rather than seeing fast growth as a goal, see it as an adjustable variable; that's even if you're in for the infinite game. This entails that you strategically slow the rate of your growth, by extending your tentacles as a means to acquire enough skill and training that would help you move head long in the midst of added pressure, because there's going to have a lot of them as you journey along in your endeavors. What make an endeavor "successful" is not in that endeavor itself, it is the individuals who are behind that endeavor that determine how successful it would be. ~PCI

The mistake about expression

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  I don't know if this has happened to you: I sometimes wonder if this is only me. There are times when I get to sit down and read a piece, be it an article or a book; I find myself looking for patterns, especially when it comes to how the tone of the piece is been set. And as I begin to absorb myself with the idea in it... I have many times–not just once– caught myself go(and I don't know if this happens to you) no, no. This is not how this part should have been written.  In my mind, as I read along, I am already setting the pace the author might not have set. Maybe the author calmly made an expression, and I am thinking, this should have come a little bit hash.  Well, just recently, I realized how wrong I have been when I judge a writer based on his or her expression. The problem is not really how the writer expressed it because if I would argue, I would say, there's no right way of expression (this is actually the bases for this piece itself). This is because our persp...