The premise of the leadership principles is that *everyone* is a leader. It's not meant to say "your management chain is right a lot," it's meant to say "if you work at Amazon you should be right, a lot." (Of course, whether the leadership principles are adhered to is hit or miss based on team, but the whole idea behind them is that they apply to everyone at the company.)

The way to communicate that you're "self insuring" smaller damages is by raising your deductibles to be as high as you can afford.

Real programmers start with a block of metal and a pile of sand. Doing anything else relies too much on magical abstractions that can produce bugs.

I heard that Katherine Ryan's sister's husband is cheating on her.

Any of the big cloud providers have lots of folks working on stuff like this (but obviously jobs at those companies aren't as abundant as they were in years past).

No, but the space did used to host a banger of a theme restaurant called Mars 2112: https://www.bonappetit.com/story/mars-2112-eulogy

Excuse me, I'd like a word about these sub-standard ingots you sold me

What about larger towns or smaller cities with medical schools/teaching hospitals? Rochester, NY; Worcester, MA; Burlington, VT? (There are lots of others, just spitballing).

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder!

It's actually very dangerous because if Alaska and Unalaska interact at all it will result in a massive explosion.

There's no way Ty Cobb's eyes were as calm as Derek Jeter's!

Hank tries to go to Shaver Lake, winds up in Silver Lake instead. Hilarity ensues.

So then why would you want to pay $130/share instead of $124/share?

This isn't an argument for much beyond not leaving hall of fame voting up to a bunch of dipshits who got Cs in journalism school.

Maybe Moe's?

This should be good for REALTORS®, it will give them time to focus on their MLMs. Slower housing market just means they have extra bandwidth to girlboss the shit out of some leggings and essential oils.

"Kaylee loves the new fridge, pop. It really keeps her juice boxes cold. Or her wine coolers, I can never remember how old she is for some reason."

Truly. Everyone giving OP advice should look at that before deciding if this is where they want want to spend their time and energy. OP, I hope you get that Raya referral you seem so desperate for!

Who is "they" in your second sentence?

Every story on this sub that involves a hiring team giving feedback inevitably provides more evidence for why companies hate giving feedback and why they should never do it.

What do you mean? It's simple, just take this 200 page spec I wrote and go build it - see you in 2 years, I'm sure it'll be exactly what I was expecting!

Something like "maybe next time get the extra large shirt"

It's a great shot for him as long as nobody he knows ever goes and listens to the audio of it.

The capital-A Agile-industrial complex is, for the most part, a betrayal of the original intent of agile software development (i.e. https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html). But even the bastardized version of agile is better than what it replaced, so I'm not sure what the alternative is.