On Ishiguro causing Amazon

[Mark Kohut]

https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/915975473573720065

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 6:03 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>> finished the novel *The Remains of the Day*, by Kazuo Ishiguro, about a
>>
>> butler who wistfully recalls his personal and professional choices during
>> a
>>
>> 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
>>
>> calls “the regret-minimization framework” to decide the next step to take
>>
>> at this juncture in his career.
>>
>>
>> Stone, Brad. 2013. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of
>> Amazon. New York:
>>
>> Little, Brown, p. 27.
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>>
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>> *https://uff.academia.edu/SamirSellami
>> <https://uff.academia.edu/SamirSellami>*
>>
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