/six-pager -- Amazon-style Narrative Memo and PRFAQ

Generate decision documents in the format Amazon has used since June 9, 2004 — when Bezos banned PowerPoint and required every meeting to open with a written narrative.

This skill produces the document. It does not replace the discipline. The original Amazon practice takes a week (draft → review → set aside → edit → final). The skill compresses the structure but preserves the prose-quality bar.

Why This Works

Three independent traditions converge on a single principle: writing is the thinking instrument, not the documentation of it.

• Bezos (Amazon, 2004): "There is no way to write a six-page narratively structured memo and not have clear thinking."
• Strunk (1918, restated by E.B. White 1959): "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts." (Rule 17)
• Anthropic (Claude Code Best Practices): "For every line, ask: If I removed this, would Claude make a mistake? If not, remove it."

Same rule, three scales: line, sentence, instruction. This skill enforces all three.

When to Use This vs Sibling Skills