Nilay Patel
Aqua forever.
This live-reflecting update to Apple’s 2000s-era Aqua design language is so cool. Bring it back!
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Professor Chris Miller’s new book Chip War explains the complicated global politics inside your iPhone.
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Beware the bozo explosion.
Alex Heath reports in this week’s Command Line that Mark Zuckerberg is hinting at more layoffs to come in Meta’s middle management ranks, saying “I don’t think you want a management structure that’s just managers managing managers, managing managers, managing managers, managing the people who are doing the work.”
That made me think of this legendary Steve Jobs riff on the “bozo explosion” — the idea that prioritizing management skill over actually doing great work is a self-defeating cycle. (True fact: Dieter Bohn and I have probably sent this video to each other every couple months for over a decade now.)
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In another 15 years maybe we’ll be teaching kids how to search for things.
Barbara wrote a useful how-to today for all the people out there searching for help zipping and unzipping files, and that got me thinking about this great piece Monica did in 2021 on college STEM professors having to teach the basics of file systems to the next generation of students, who all came up on Chromebooks and search-based interfaces. It’s worth a Friday re-read — especially in the context of the next next generation potentially asking various AIs to just answer questions directly.
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Apple’s new pro laptops right the wrongs of the past half decade
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Here I am talking about Microsoft’s layoffs and the Activision deal on CNBC.
Nadella noting that he’s planning for a “platform shift” and cutting the “hardware portfolio” is pretty interesting — but I’m curious for your thoughts in the comments!
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Disney’s in the middle of an activist investor fight, and it’s not pulling punches.
CNBC has lots more, but you know things are getting weird when the slide deck Disney filed to SEC flat-out says “Nelson Peltz does not understand Disney’s businesses and lacks the skills and experience to assist the board in delivering shareholder value in a rapidly shifting media ecosystem.”
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Monica’s pure delight at CES nonsense is making me completely miss CES.
I didn’t go this year and now I regret it; watching Monica Chin grin while riding these electric rollerblades and playing with the Lenovo Yoga Book 9i is making me seriously miss being in Vegas. CES is full of nonsense but giggling at tech nonsense is like the best part of this job! That said, all the cars are pure vaporware nonsense.
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