This Week - Jul 06, 2015

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.

— Shoshin (Andrew Bosworth for Boz)

’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.

— Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple - (Ian Parker for The New Yorker)