[HN Gopher] The Macintosh Way (1990) [pdf]
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       The Macintosh Way (1990) [pdf]
        
       Author : uniqueid
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2021-09-03 11:43 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | smoldesu wrote:
       | > Q. How many Macintosh Division employees do you need to change
       | a light bulb? > A. One. He holds the light bulb up and lets the
       | universe revolve around him.
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       | How well does that scale to modern Apple? Do they retain 140,000+
       | employees, each one expecting the world to revolve around them?
        
         | thought_alarm wrote:
         | That's a description of the early Macintosh Division relative
         | to the rest of the company (which at the time was being kept
         | afloat by the Apple II).
         | 
         | I'm sure there are groups within Apple that think the rest of
         | the company revolves around them, as there are in most
         | companies.
        
       | specialist wrote:
       | Love this book. Reading this book's depiction of Jean-Louis
       | Gassee was a major deflection point in my life.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gassee
       | 
       | Trying to emulate Gassee, my team and peers, knowing my true
       | nature, thought I had gone insane.
       | 
       | I continued to read his opinions. http://www.mondaynote.com Agree
       | or disagree, I appreciate his heterodoxy, challenging my own
       | assumptions and views.
       | 
       | Guy Kawasaki, not so much.
        
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