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Creation: Life and How to Make It
Science / Artificial Life
The British game designer behind Creatures argues that intelligent, lifelike systems are best built bottom-up from a small set of primitive components that compose into emergent behavior. Bezos made it required reading for the early AWS team and used Grand's primitives framing to decompose the cloud into storage, compute, messaging, and payment building blocks.
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Jeff Bezos
Farnam Street notes Bezos made Grand's book required reading for the early AWS team; the primitives framing maps directly onto AWS's decomposition into storage, compute, bandwidth, messaging, and payments.