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One of my favourite Jeff Bezos anecdotes

Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon's retail site. He hired Larry Tesler, Apple's Chief Scientist and probably the very most famous and respected human-computer interaction expert in the entire world, and then ignored every goddamn thing Larry said for three years until Larry finally -- wisely -- left the company. Larry would do these big usability studies and demonstrate beyond any shred of doubt that nobody can understand that frigging website, but Bezos just couldn't let go of those pixels, all those millions of semantics-packed pixels on the landing page. They were like millions of his own precious children. So they're all still there, and Larry is not.


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I always wondered why it was like that. There was this meme going around about how "oh all Japanese web design is really dated blag blah", which isn't even consistently true IME, but more to the point, Amazon still looks like it's from fucking 1997 so shut up and sit down, white boy.

Haha, yeah... as long as Amazon's the, like, most valuable website in the world, "the west" has nothing to stand on. And this sure helps me understand how it ended up the huge mess that it is

From all the stories I've read, what it mostly breeds is backstabbing managers who realize they can sit on their ass and collect a free paycheck so long as they feed the God Emperor the blood of enough interns and H1bs every quarter.