I was an Amazon L7, I led global AI enablement, I was laid off

"Spent half a decade at Amazon, and all the folk I see being cut today are strong, performant Amazonians. Not fifo, but cutting the high performers that made Amazon successful, the doers, the expensive ones, the L6+ folk that define the culture. This is what we used to call frupidity (iykyk)"

https://x.com/BaldSkeptical/status/2016680049886249098

there’s always crazy ideas at that moment, but you gotta check yourself…