Amazon’s closely guarded “Project Dawn” redundancies were accidentally exposed when a draft email from a senior AWS executive was mistakenly sent to staff

Long before it became the beige wallpaper of modern communication, “I hope this finds you well” was a standard part of letter-writing conventions. One Civil War soldier, for example, began a letter home to his mother like this: “My dear Mammy: I hope this finds you well, as it leaves me well.”