The extraordinary book [that s] about a basic fact of biology is part of the one last thing of utmost importance I feel compelled to teach, Bezos wrote, adding the following excerpt: Staving off death is a thing that you have to work at. Left to itself – and that is what it is when it dies – the body tends to revert to a state of equilibrium with its environment . Our bodies, for instance, are usually hotter than our surroundings, and in cold climates they have to work hard to maintain the differential. When we die the work stops.. .[I]f living things didn t work actively to prevent it, they would eventually merge into their surroundings, and cease to exist as autonomous beings.
The extraordinary book [that s] about a basic fact of biology is part of the one last thing of utmost importance I feel compelled to teach, Bezos wrote, adding the following excerpt: Staving off death is a thing that you have to work at. Left to itself – and that is what it is when it dies – the body tends to revert to a state of equilibrium with its environment . Our bodies, for instance, are usually hotter than our surroundings, and in cold climates they have to work hard to maintain the differential. When we die the work stops.. .[I]f living things didn t work actively to prevent it, they would eventually merge into their surroundings, and cease to exist as autonomous beings.
April 15, 2021
In 1997, the year Amazon went public, founder and longtime CEO Jeff Bezos started writing an annual letter to the company’s shareholders.
Today, Amazon published his final letter as CEO. At the end of the year, Bezos intends to step aside and become executive chair, a post that will allow him to focus on endeavors such as his space company, Blue Origin, his ownership of the Washington Post, and the charitable funds he has founded.
In his parting words as the company’s top executive, Bezos talked about a range of subjects, such as Amazon’s employees and the value Amazon creates, but his conclusion had a more philosophical flavor. “This is my last annual shareholder letter as the CEO of Amazon, and I have one last thing of utmost importance I feel compelled to teach,” Bezos wrote. “I hope all Amazonians take it to heart.” He then launched into some musings about biology, death, and their relation to Amazon.
Here’s why Jeff Bezos quoted a 1986 book about human evolution in his shareholders letter
April 15, 2021 at 10:05 am
The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins’ bestselling 1986 book that skewers the notion of intelligent design while celebrating the rational science of evolution, got its star turn today in Jeff Bezos’ final shareholder letter as CEO of Amazon.
Specifically, Bezos quoted this passage on what the natural fight to stay alive means from a purely biological standpoint:
“Staving off death is a thing that you have to work at. Left to itself – and that is what it is when it dies – the body tends to revert to a state of equilibrium with its environment. If you measure some quantity such as the temperature, the acidity, the water content or the electrical potential in a living body, you will typically find that it is markedly different from the corresponding measure in the surroundings. Our bodies, for instance, are usually hotter than our surroundings, and in cold
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