The memo was never the point. The point was to clarify your thinking

In 2004, Jeff Bezos banned PowerPoint from Amazon’s senior leadership meetings in favor of narrative memos, read in silence at the start of each meeting. The idea was that a well-structured and tightly argued memo communicated its ideas in a way that a deck built around bullet points could not. As Amazon moves into the AI era, it is developing internal tools that can help produce polished documents much more efficiently. Its internal AI assistant, Cedric, promises to deliver “six-page narratives...