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Let us begin with a confession. I have been hiking, fishing, and shooting sporting clays with little time to read for the last week or so.

Amazon’s strength lies in three areas: cloud computing services, transactions, those B2B or healthcare business to insurance payments(B2I), and logistics. How do these core competencies pair up in providing Amazon Care? 

I tried to eat a more plant-based diet, and on the ethical front, I have given up eating octopus; they are too intelligent for my taste.

It all began with Zappos and a policy of free returns. Returning unwanted clothing and other products has become second nature, just like ordering them to be sent to our homes.

By Peter Attia, MD [1]

I feel a unique attraction to eating, as my body shape will attest. I am drawn intellectually to cooking because I am fascinated by combing chemicals – call it the hang-over from my “Chemcraft” chemistry sets. Cooking is chemistry we can eat.

Anyone that looks at my silhouette will recognize that I enjoy a good meal or two. I am a foodie, going all the way back to watching Julia Child on PBS in the ’70s.

“In 1894, Marie de Manacéine, one of the first female physicians in Russia, published a remarkable paper showing that when puppies were completely deprived of sleep, they died after just a few days.

Reprinted from The Conversation