I went from a prestigious role in tech to a much lower-rung one that isn’t so demanding. I’d rather have a pleasant life than a large paycheck. Went from miserable to very happy.

Friend majored in philosophy. Guess how much he got to use that?

He didn’t create new products. He conducted the people who were creating new products and steered them. He wasn’t a genius. He was good at guiding people who were.

He was a dick, but he had a good mind for products. He wasn’t infallible, but he had a sense of taste that was useful in driving others who had greater skills than he.

You either die a hero or you live long enough to start openly acting like the villain you’ve always been.

Hey, if you want to layoff people critical to managing nukes and run a lying website that is open to SQL-injection attacks, that takes a lot of “special” knowledge. I think it’s great that we’re paying dumbasses to fuck things up. What other job could they get with such prestige?

/s

Source on this? I read that Tim Apple offered a donation and Steve refused. I have not read that he had the surgery.

It’s unfortunate because his leadership / sense of taste is what made Apple a powerhouse. Under Tim Apple, the software has languished. They’re great at hardware and the software is far from great. What a shame.

They mean they need you to murder your partner so they can wear your partner’s skin.

A Disney film or series was going to have a trans character. That’s no longer a thing. Guess why.

Wikipedia. Ballz game.

A little more drunk, please.

TSLA down 7.27 (2.15%) today. I’ll check tomorrow and hope for this to become a trend.

I created a “no politics” rule in 2020 that saved us from a terrible falling-out. We’d argued about politics, religion, whatever other stupid shit for years.