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Now that you have acquired that skill, why don't you move elsewhere?

I meant the practice of writing docs is unique to Amazon. I would imagine it isn't the case at say Google or Facebook to spend the first 15-20 minutes of a meeting reading narratives.

By saying this will keep me at Amazon, I meant that I would like to continue doing the narrative style meetings for as long as possible. Also, there are plenty of other skills you gain by working on things at the scale AWS operates at. I don't believe I've learned all that I can, yet.

Amazon, as an organization, cares more about thoughtful, evidence-based argument than any company I've ever worked for and, I suspect, any company I will ever work for. Having left Amazon (twice!), this is the thing I miss the most.

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