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Apple Product Marketing

Phil Schiller talks to Steven Levy

A Grand Philosophical Device Theory

[Y]ou should be using the smallest possible gadget to do as much as possible before going to the next largest gizmo in line.

Technical Manager

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
 — Archibald Putt

Paying Attention

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!—Upton Sinclair

Don’t Worry About the Numbers

A Merlin Mann thought technology

Trying to talk somebody out of the stuff that they enjoy in life is like trying to talk them out of their faith or their sexuality. It’s a pointless exercise that can never be anything but…

Generation Gap

It’s been a long time since there was a true generation gap, perhaps 50 years — you have to go back to the early years of rock and roll, when old people still talked about ‘jungle rhythms.’ Everything associated with that music and its greasy, shaggy culture felt baffling and divisive, from the crude…

Your Core Workout

Tony Schwartz and the four core energies

We feel better and perform better when four core energy needs are met: sufficient rest, including the opportunity for intermittent renewal during the work day; feeling valued and appreciated; having the…

Terms of Indifference

The most terrifying fact of the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can…

‘Kids Today’

A combination of debt, joblessness, globalisation, demographics and rising house prices is depressing the incomes and prospects of millions of young people across the developed world, resulting in unprecedented inequality between generations.