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mattacular

> What really struck me was how Amazon's product decisions were driven by internal KPIs rather than user empathy.

First day on the job or what?

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It’s an ancient lesson that has to be relearned over and over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woodcutter_and_the_Trees

Thanks for the rabbit hole, the Perry Index is my new thing for the next few months I guess

The ATU index is also worth looking into:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarne%E2%80%93Thompson%E2%80%9...

Looking a little deeper, the author's written a scattering of blog posts in the past 3 years, and has spent seemingly little more time as a professional software developer versus finance/business. Not jaded enough yet for senior

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