Working Backwards
Colin Bryar & Bill Carr
- Status
- Up next
- Planned
- Oct 2026
- Phase
- 1 — Strategy & executive narrative
- product
- operations
- culture
From the publisher
Two long-tenured Amazon executives describe the company's operating practices from the inside: the Bar Raiser hiring process, the six-page narrative memo that replaced slide decks, the PR/FAQ that starts every product from a customer press release and works backward, and the metrics and single-threaded-ownership model that hold it all together.
My notes
Notes coming as I read.