(On deciding whether to allow negative reviews on Amazon in early days, when book publishers were trying to force them not to.)
I'm deep down the Bezos rabbit-hole. I'll thread some of the lesser-known highlights I find here:
Start with his traditional toast: "To adventure and fellowship"
(On deciding whether to allow negative reviews on Amazon in early days, when book publishers were trying to force them not to.)
It’ll go down 30%, and it doesn’t make you 30% dumber either"
(On the stock price during the dotcom crash, when Amazon was ~$3 or something absurd. Every internal metric and initiative was still progressing well.)
“Whatever the crisis is… whatever the threat, the right answer is almost always to double down on making customers delighted."
Look in a mirror, ask: “Are they right?”
Then ask “Are they self-interested?”
"If you want to be innovative, you have to be willing to be misunderstood, and criticized."
“You can explain things to people. But you can’t understand things to people."
(About the scale of Blue Origin, and some of his ambitious non-profit work.)
“I remember driving the packages to the post office myself, dreaming of the day we’d be able to afford a forklift."
"Stress comes from unaddressed problems-- ignoring something that you should be working on. Stress doesn't come from the work itself."
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...we raise the perspective that CoVs can persistently infect bats due to their association with biofilm structures. This phenomenon potentially provides an optimal environment for nonpathogenic & well-adapted viruses to interact with the host, as well as for viral recombination.
Biofilms can also enhance virion viability in extracellular environments, such as on fomites and in aquatic sediments, allowing viral persistence and dissemination.
Viruses and other pathogens are often studied as stand-alone entities, despite that, in nature, they mostly live in multispecies associations called biofilms—both externally and within the host.
https://t.co/FBfXhUrH5d
Microorganisms in biofilms are enclosed by an extracellular matrix that confers protection and improves survival. Previous studies have shown that viruses can secondarily colonize preexisting biofilms, and viral biofilms have also been described.
...we raise the perspective that CoVs can persistently infect bats due to their association with biofilm structures. This phenomenon potentially provides an optimal environment for nonpathogenic & well-adapted viruses to interact with the host, as well as for viral recombination.
Biofilms can also enhance virion viability in extracellular environments, such as on fomites and in aquatic sediments, allowing viral persistence and dissemination.
