The abuse of survivor bias in this article pisses me off.
There are much more valuable lessons to take away from Amazon et al. than "be radical, be new, run the world differently." For starters, the companies he uses as positive examples all spend an enormous amount of their attention on optimizing the user experience. Wouldn't that be more valuable to emulate?
Accountants and MBAs should not run anything, except a calculator. Lutz was right to say that car guys should make cars, software guys should make software, etc.
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The abuse of survivor bias in this article pisses me off.
There are much more valuable lessons to take away from Amazon et al. than "be radical, be new, run the world differently." For starters, the companies he uses as positive examples all spend an enormous amount of their attention on optimizing the user experience. Wouldn't that be more valuable to emulate?
Accountants and MBAs should not run anything, except a calculator. Lutz was right to say that car guys should make cars, software guys should make software, etc.