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Bezos' Shareholder Letter in 2000

Tomasz Tunguz

OUCH. It’s been a brutal year for many in the capital markets and certainly for Amazon.com shareholders. As of this writing, our shares are down more than 80 percent from when I wrote you last year. Jeff Bezos wrote this to start his annual shareholder letter in the year 2000. But he might have written it today. Amazon stock reached an all time high of $5.33 before falling to $0.298.

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writing one sentence per line

Derek Sivers

My advice to anyone who writes: Try writing one sentence per line. I’ve been doing it for twenty years, and it improved my writing more than anything else. New sentence? Hit [Enter]. New line. Not publishing one sentence per line, no. Write like this for your eyes only. HTML or Markdown combine separate lines into one paragraph. Why is it so useful?

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Fermi ROI: Fixing the ROI rubric

A Smart Bear: Longform

Traditional rubrics fail to reveal the best answers, or how explain those answers to others. After explaining why, the following system solves both failures.

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the joke that changed my life

Derek Sivers

Growing up in America, I didn’t know much about other cultures. When I was 25, my band got some gigs in Europe — my first time there. It was 1995. The European Union was new. I heard a street performer in Copenhagen tell this joke: “The EU will be a success if …. the British are the police. the French are the chefs. the Italians are the lovers. and the whole thing is organized by the Germans.”.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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[Tabnine in Enterprise Talk] Tabnine upgrades AI-based code-writing assistant for developers

OurCrowd

Tabnine, a company that creates an AI-powered assistant for software developers that predicts when code will be created for certain apps and fills in the gaps with relevant snippets, has released a new version of its time-saving application programming interface. Read more here. The post [Tabnine in Enterprise Talk] Tabnine upgrades AI-based code-writing assistant for developers appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.