Today we are thinking hard and then doing harder!

Bigmouth Strikes Again:

Launching Something

In a reflective article about what it’s like to work at both Amazon and Google, Carlos Arguelles, a Senior Staff Engineer at Google, writes about the difference between working at both companies. Part of his article discusses the difference between launching something and landing something. At Google, where you can stare in any direction and gaze upon another intellectual genius, they solve impossible problems, but it’s the solving of the problem that is the goal. At Amazon, the team solved a problem for the result and the impact the solution would have once it was solved.

Arguelles works at Google now and has been there for 2.5 years. Before that, he spent 11+ years at Amazon, oh you, and before that, another 11+ at Microsoft! Amazon was laser focused on productivity, efficiency, and scale. Not just in the; buying, selling, and delivering of goods but also in the highly competitive world of digital platforms, software, and cloud infrastructure services. AWS (Amazon Web Services) will have more than 30% of the US market in 2022.

It’s an interesting dynamic and perspective from someone inside both walls. Arguelles sums up the difference by stating that Google puts more emphasis on employees, and Amazon focuses on customers. Arguelles would like to see a hybrid of both models; his experience suggests he could.

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Before and After

It’s funny what looks and feels old. If you’ve been around a few years, you can remember, like it was yesterday, what it was like to be young. Loudwire came with a list of Then and Now band photos from ACDC and Motley Crue to Blink 182 and Greenday. Rock Life is not an easy life. Can you imagine what it must be like to be on tour?

Younger, you wanted to be a rockstar, or maybe more youthful; you were a bartender in your 20s. In an exciting life, you were in the middle of the party several nights of the week, working, drinking, talking, and partying night after night; for most of us, that can get old fast. For these rockers, the road life shows. Thanks to you all for the music.