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Nov 26, 2014
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Been reading a spate of management books. First I read a book by Ben Horowitz (one of the early employees at Netscape and a well-known venture capitalist), The Hard Thing About Hard Things. And now I'm reading Brad Stone's history of Amazon.com: The Everything Store.

What I'm struck by, in reading both of these books, is how hard people are expected to w…

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