Profile of Tim Bray, the former VP at Amazon who quit in May criticizing its “vein of toxicity” and who is building a business case for breaking up the company
Karen Weise / New York Times : Tweets: @kyweise , @nytimesbusiness , @zephyrteachout , @stacyfmitchell , @nytimestech , @kyweise , and @pinboard Tweets: Karen Weise / @kyweise : Remember when Amazon VP @timbray quit in May? Since then, he's been building a much broader critique of Amazon's power, and how the sheer bigness of Amazon and other large companies are distorting politics, policies and labor markets. 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimesbusiness : Becoming the company's most prominent defector amid the beating of the antitrust drums, Tim Bray, a former vice president at Amazon, argues that the company should separate its retail business from its lucrative cloud computing unit. https://www.nytimes.com/... Zephyr Teachout / @zephyrteachout : The Amazon Critic Who Saw Its Power From the Inside says.... UNIONIZATION AND TRUSTBUSTING! https://www.nytimes.com/... Stacy Mitchell / @stacyfmitchell : Terrific profile of @timbray, who was once a top engineer at Amazon, but left this year in protest and is now a vocal advocate for breaking up and unionizing the company. Exactly right. https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimestech : “As a V.P., you're not supposed to go off the rails with conflicting messaging, which is not an unreasonable position,” Tim Bray said. But that idea would eventually lead to his resignation. https://www.nytimes.com/... Karen Weise / @kyweise : The story traces how he tried but ultimately was unable to contain his political activism inside Amazon and quit, and since has said the company should be broken up. There's a lot in the piece, please have a read. 5/ https://www.nytimes.com/... @pinboard : People like Bray or Tristan Harris are the tech equivalent of NeverTrumpers. We're happy to have them, but why they are treated as instant spokespeople for the movement to regulate Big Tech by dint of coming over from a lucrative career on the wrong side mystifies me. https://twitter.com/...