On Ishiguro causing Amazon

[John Bailey]

Gosh, that's tough in Ishiguro (I'm sure he'll be fine). Amazon is more
like retail fascism. Maybe he thought Remains of the Day was an
inspirational feel-good yarn.

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 11:18 PM, Samir Sellami <
samir.manuel.sellami at gmail.com> wrote:

> At the time Bezos was thinking about what to do next, he had recently
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> finished the novel *The Remains of the Day*, by Kazuo Ishiguro, about a
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> butler who wistfully recalls his personal and professional choices during a
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> career in service in wartime Great Britain. So looking back on life’s
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> important junctures was on Bezos’s mind when he came up with what he
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> calls “the regret-minimization framework” to decide the next step to take
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> at this juncture in his career.
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>
> Stone, Brad. 2013. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.
> New York:
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> Little, Brown, p. 27.
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