It Feels Like Each Time

It's One Of The Curses Of Designing That When You Look At Anything, You're Constantly Thinking, Why? Why - Why Was It Designed Like That, And Not Like This?

Apple Was Very Close To Bankruptcy And To Irrelevance [but] You Learn A Lot About Life Through Death, And I Learnt A Lot About Vital Corporations By Experiencing A Non-vital Corporation. You Would Have Thought That, When What Stands Between You And Bankruptcy Is Some Money, Your Focus Would Be On Making Some Money, But That Was Not [steve Jobs’] Preoccupation. His Observation Was That The Products Weren’t Good Enough And His Resolve Was, We Need To Make Better Products. That Stood In Stark Contrast To The Previous Attempts To Turn The Company Around.

Apple Stood For Something And Had A Reason For Being That Wasn't Just About Making Money.

Titles Or Organizational Structures, That’s Not The Lens Through Which We See Our Peers.

And I Said Couldn't We Be More Moderate? And He Said Why? And I Said Because I Care About The Team. And He Said, 'no Jony, You're Just Really Vain. You Just Want People To Like You. I'm Surprised At You, Because I Thought You Really Held The Work Up As The Most Important And Not How You Are Perceived By People.' People Misunderstand Steve Because He Was So Focused.