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From the morning of June 1
The memo Bezos sent before pulling the trigger on AWS.
Three paragraphs of the original, a screenshot of the source page, and one short lesson on why the writing matters — not what to take away, but what to notice.
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- ContextWhat was happening when the letter was written.
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