Always Day One

“I mean, I guess I wrote a book called Always Day One, so I should be the one preaching this, you know, more than anyone. But to be relevant in tech is this constant cycle of reinvention, where you cannot hold on to what got you to the dance for too long.”

“I wrote this book about workplaces. Uh the workplaces of the big tech companies um including Amazon was the first chapter. The book is called Always Day One.”

“I was covering Amazon long before that as as a reporter and wrote this book called Always Day One. And this is why I was upset that I didn't follow up.”

“So, I came in when I came into my reporting, I wrote a book book title Always Day One. I came in thinking that Day One mentality meant that you just kind of work 24/7 and you have that relentlessness.”

“So Nick, you and I spoke for my book, Always Day One, which was a book about reinvention. Y and the idea was there are going to be technology shifts that tech companies are going to have to deal with, and the ones that stay relevant are the ones that get ahead of change.”

“You can find my book always day one on Spotify if you're a premium listener which I'm happy about cuz more people can listen to to the book.”

“I mean the book behind my right shoulder is called always day one because of that”

“I'm not sure if you recall it, but I was writing my book, Always Day One, and I had a black mirror chapter talking about what could go wrong with artificial intelligence technology.”

“This is from our conversation that I put in my book. We'd have to find some new sources of self-worth. But in Disneyland, the job of children there is to enjoy the whole thing, and Disneyland would be a rather sad place if it weren't for the kids.”

“So, but, but, Ronjan, going to your point that we're, you know, obviously they're trying to, and I would never, I mean, I wrote the book always day one, right? You always got to be, like, is it your, it's your first day.”

“And that's a book that I wrote about the company is called Always Day One, right? And it's all about how it reinvents and that's a good thing, but on the other hand, there it it can seem kind of amorphous at time”

“the whole point I mean I wrote a book the title is called always do one so the point of the book is that the company operates as if it's a startup on its first day”

“the pirate flag when I was writing the book I heard about this pirate mentality yes and I could never nail it down talk a little bit about it”

“because I have a book about this always day one which talks about how the tech giants have sort of reduced some of the and this is going to be a nice setup for us in a bit but reduced some of the work they're doing on internal processes”

“I wrote this book about tech company culture always day one and it was it was it focused zero on the perks zero because the cool thing about being at these companies is that you can build a product”

“Well, for me, it's always day one, Alex. Great book title. Had to drop that in.”

“So, obviously, for those familiar, I have a book. It's called Always Day One. It's about all the tech giants, but really focuses a lot on Amazon.”

“Well, every, that's the thing that I was saying in, I'm always day one, just a little bit of a side note. Every company has this.”

“When I started covering Amazon for my book, Always Day One, they were at like 600,000 people and that felt huge. And that was in 2017. Now they're well over a million.”

“Well, I thank you privately for this, but I do want to thank you publicly for the amount of help that you gave to Always Day One. Definitely a different book after you come through it. So I appreciate that.”

“so the way i came across your work was i was in amazon headquarters reporting for my book always day one talking about how ai and corporations will will mesh and how that changes work”

“I wrote this book, Always Day One, actually spoke to Mark for it. It was, you know, really interesting to hear about his perspective. And it's all about corporate reinvention, companies coming in as if it's their first day”

“Don also spoke with me for my book, Always Day One, which I will always remain grateful for. So we go over some of those stories again.”

“I brought it up to Mark when I met with him, speaking with him for Always Day One, and he did seem still a little bit bummed that he couldn't go watch Bezos.”

“yeah i wrote about this a little bit and always day one and um i don't know if we've spoken i'm sure we have but yeah i did go up to you know i got a chance to spend some time with zuckerberg for the book”

“because teal and zuckerberg have an interesting relationship in fact when i was reporting always day one i was told that you know mark has a feedback culture and he likes to listen to contrarian voices”

“Like, there's, speaking of, I'll just say one more thing, speaking of like the loneliness stuff, right? Like while I was doing research about this for Always Day One we were thinking about the downside of technology and where Facebook was going in particular.”

“so I wrote about the instance that we talked about in the first part of the, of the podcast in my book, always day one.”

“You know, I, I, as I was working on the book, I think I added you on LinkedIn and always in the back of my mind, I was like, I wonder if Maria would ever speak with me.”

“The curiosity and the passion to invent does strike me. And I definitely saw that while I was writing always day one.”

“We spoke in Seattle back when things were in person as I was trying to research what Hands Off the Wheel was all about for my book, Always Day One.”

“And I think like one of my favorite stories that I came across when I was writing always day one was, uh, Dilip Kumar, who was running pricing and promotions, uh, inside Amazon, right?”

“i mean of course like i've wrote in my book always day one there's definitely some business innovation a lot of business innovation that happens there but there's an uglier side to it as well”

“At the end of the book that I wrote about this stuff, always day one, we talk, I talk a little bit about the case for thoughtful invention and how like we have this technology at our fingertips and we can do amazingly powerful things about them”

“If you're a long-time subscriber and give us a rating and email me bigtechnologypodcast at gmail.com, you will be eligible to get a free signed copy of my book, Always Day One.”

“And I moved from covering AdTech to the tech giants and also was obsessed with Amazon and ended up writing a book, always day one. Title is like the catchphrase of Bezos.”

“So, when I was writing Always Day One, I had five CEOs that I was writing about. Bezos, Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Satya, Nadella, and Tim Cook.”

“It's a great – I mean, really, it was a great season. I sourced it in my book. I thought it was great.”

“i i will say that while i was writing always day one i took maybe six months um not completely off but i didn't tweet for six something like five six months and i also uh spent much less time on the platform remove the app from my phone etc etc”

“always day one how the tech titans plan to stay on top forever great book however horrific timing”

“the book is always day one available at all major booksellers”

“So I wrote the book, Always Day One, about tech giant culture. I learned a lot about Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft. I didn't hear anything about TikTok.”

“But before we do, I, I just want to say, you and I shared an editor for a bit, our books, my book, always day one, and your book, No Filter came out in the same month.”

“It's kind of where both of our books collide, right? Like, yours is, you know, you talk at the end about Facebook's jealousy of Instagram. For me, always day one.”

“I had just finished, uh, I getting my book out. I mean, I'm publishing always day one, uh, at the very worst moment of this pandemic was really tough. Um, obviously pales in comparison to everything else that was going on for people.”

“anyway we're not talking about Elon Musk today we're talking about your new book always day one”