Invent and Wander
Jeff Bezos's collected shareholder letters, speeches and interviews
Every Amazon shareholder letter from 1997 to 2019, plus a set of speeches and interviews, collected in one volume. The letters are where the ideas people quote come from, including Day 1, customer obsession, two-way door decisions, disagree and commit, and the six-page memo. The interview section covers his morning routine and how he thinks about sleep and decision quality. Readers who want the source material rather than a biography usually start here.
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Amazon and Blue Origin founder · Six-page memos and eight hours of sleep
His own book: the collected writings, gathering the shareholder letters with speeches and interviews, published in late 2020. The puttering and eight hours of sleep remarks from the 2018 Economic Club talk are reprinted in it.
Source: CNBC Make It: Why Jeff Bezos sets aside time to 'putter' every day
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