I think you nailed it -that's why Amazon is a success..a culture where brilliant people working crazy hours for little reward (now).. obv that gets harder to translate when you have thousands of employees...
Ironic that this is about reviews of a product on an app store given Amazons legacy on product reviews...
Brandon here gives a great overview of his experience here. but I'm sorry that so many intelligent people have to be bootlickers to CEO whims and that we inculcate that lesson for our new hires and new engineers. (ie the CEO is 'GOD')
Of course a CEO gets to dictate policy..but if it happens on a whim or for certain empathy deficient folks like Bezos after another CEO eggs him on..
To me a decent work life balance is paramount..but ambitious people have other priorities -Life's to short to waste your weekend analyzing app store review data esp if you or your team of engineers is busy doing what the company wants in the first place.
Bezos, Musk, Jobs, Gates or our own CEO we drink the corporate kool-aid and keep worshiping these guys.. at what cost?
-Question has anyone validated and/or disproved his Geometric Rules based approach and NKS Cellular automata against traditional physics models and found predictable conclusions that can be tested via experiment? IE is it really anything other alternative notation/representation system?
It essentially presupposes a computational canvas to the universe,but in what substrate does this computation happen?
Obviously the guy has an ego the size of a black hole (and probably as insecure about it, since the whole website (beautifully produced of course) has no community forum, comment section or space for peer review about the theories he presents..
He really needs to get away from sycophants in his company and engage with outside world. Citing others would help. New perspectives on physics and mathematical descriptions of the universe are welcome and I'm sure there is plenty of insights to be found..who knows exactly, since the investment in learning and understanding his approach requires substantial effort to decode and without prediction . sad to see how little things like a ego of one little man can both be a source of insight and frustration at the same time..
I haven't seen the ideas he presents over there exposed anywhere else in either science publications, global media or even hobbyist blogs. Maybe there's a lesson there that some smart minds might do better when absolving themselves of the constraints of traditional science processes and publishing rythm?
Now this guy is in a very interesting position, as someone who became fixated upon an interesting (?) phenomenon at one point in his life, then spent decades studying it, wrote books and papers about it, designed a fundamental theory basically ex nihilo based on his grand idea about that field (I'm not arguing for/against the theory's veracity here), AND then built a whole toolset around it all to do research, AND wrote books about his research, AND recorded hours of videos, AND now apparently is putting it all online for people to get easy access for free.
He's thought about something, he's worked it and now he's sharing it all. So I'm kind of curious, what more do you want him to do at this point?
