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I'm curious how these "Jeff Presentations" go. Powerpoint presentations are banned, instead you have to write your arguments as an essay. So is the meeting es

I'm curious how these "Jeff Presentations" go. Powerpoint presentations are banned, instead you have to write your arguments as an essay. So is the meeting essentially Bezos reading your writing, with the rest of the room waiting for any indication about the emperor's mood? Or does the presenter read from the prose as a script? Can any Amazon-ers give any insight?

lurker17 15y ago
Standard practice at Amazon is to quiet read the materials at the start of the meeting. I think the logic goes that you want to make sure everyone reads the material, so you may as well have everyone read the material at the same time, and discuss it when it is fresh in mind. As a related effect, it encourages people to write tightly focused documents that can be read in 15 minutes. It's not a horrible practice.