I felt like that would make it something that absolutely everybody knew and had a relationship with. Also, their “Leadership Principles” (which play a key part in the book) were perfect for my purposes. But it’s not really ABOUT Amazon, so much as about the way tech companies use technology without much regard for human impacts.
Awesome! And your navigation seems to be working well once I found the beginning. Going to add your chapter 1 to my post on serial fiction as an example of a navigable work!
And I’m going to go fix it today so that the Plot Summary works with links and that every chapter has the right headers. Not exactly the “glamorous” part of a Substack writer’s life!
I've got the plot summary all fixed and all of the chapter linking at top complete. I'm also adding those chapter links at the end as well. Hoping to make this really easy. Your essay really helped spur me on. Thanks a lot.
The funny thing is, the kernel of this story was written before I joined Amazon, and I have to say that nothing of this sort really happened there—at least that I was aware of. But there are enough strands of this all over the place that some of this is absolutely happening somewhere …
Found the beginning! Love this topic and love that you went all out and just made the company Amazon! Haha.
I felt like that would make it something that absolutely everybody knew and had a relationship with. Also, their “Leadership Principles” (which play a key part in the book) were perfect for my purposes. But it’s not really ABOUT Amazon, so much as about the way tech companies use technology without much regard for human impacts.
Awesome! And your navigation seems to be working well once I found the beginning. Going to add your chapter 1 to my post on serial fiction as an example of a navigable work!
And I’m going to go fix it today so that the Plot Summary works with links and that every chapter has the right headers. Not exactly the “glamorous” part of a Substack writer’s life!
No glamour, but very helpful to readers!
I've got the plot summary all fixed and all of the chapter linking at top complete. I'm also adding those chapter links at the end as well. Hoping to make this really easy. Your essay really helped spur me on. Thanks a lot.
Awesome! I’m glad it helped. Your story is cool!
This is why you must have your work PC and your personal machine.
What if that’s not enough? What if the tentacles go deeper—I mean, there’s a guy in a van, and who knows what he can hear …
The minute Microsoft released its "Delve" workplace tracking tools all us privacy managers couldn't turn it off fast enough.
Oh yeah, these things creep me out! (Obviously)
Gulp! I'm paranoid enough to believe Alexa is listening to everything. I can't even imagine working there and ... money may be good, but no thank you.
The funny thing is, the kernel of this story was written before I joined Amazon, and I have to say that nothing of this sort really happened there—at least that I was aware of. But there are enough strands of this all over the place that some of this is absolutely happening somewhere …