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# This Week - Jul 06, 2015
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/this-week-2015-07-06/
- Published: 2015-07-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T03:10:00.000Z
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: link, andrew bosworth, boz, ian parker, the new yorker, this week, #import-blog-backlog-2026-09-13

> Before transitioning off the team, I did my best to help my replacements understand the system we had built. I walked them through the decisions that had allowed the system to scale. I shared advice on what to change and the roadmap we expected to follow. Six months later I checked in with the team. They had ignored everything I told them – and built something much, much better.  
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> — [Shoshin (Andrew Bosworth for Boz)](http://boz.com/articles/shoshin.html?ref=drewshannon.net)

> ’I’m shy,’ Ive said. His London accent is intact after more than twenty years away. ‘I’m always focussed on the actual work, and I think that’s a much more succinct way to describe what you care about than any speech I could ever make.’ He sounded calm, but he was fidgeting with his hands, as if trying to flick gum from his fingertips.  
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> — [Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple - (Ian Parker for The New Yorker)](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/shape-things-come?ref=drewshannon.net)