Jeff Bezos doesn’t let his responsibilities — executive chairman of Amazon, owner of Blue Origin, being a billionaire investor — get in the way of his slow-moving morning routine.
The 60-year-old kicks off every day like a lot of people do: dragging his feet and scrolling on his smartphone, he recently told the “Lex Fridman Podcast.”
This appeared to shock Fridman, who’d just called Bezos “one of the most productive humans in the world.”
“I’m not as productive as you might think I am,” Bezos responded, in an episode first released in December 2023. “First of all, I get up in the morning and I putter. I have a coffee … and just slowly move around.”
Bezos also reads the newspaper and chats with his fiancé before heading to the gym for cardio and weightlifting, he said: “Most days, [going to the gym is] not that hard for me, but some days it’s really …