The original iPod launched at $399, worked only with Macs, and got savaged by critics.
"Way overpriced." "Too limited." One famous headline called it the "Wheel of Fortune"... And not as a compliment.
Tony Fadell shipped it anyway.
Then he shipped 17 more versions.
Windows compatibility. The Mini. The Nano. The price cuts.
Each one closing the gap between what they'd announced and what they'd actually imagined.
By the time the iPod peaked, it had sold 400 million units and quietly become the foundation for the iPhone.
Most people remember the iPod as a huge win for Apple but in reality the first version was expensive, Mac-only, and widely mocked.
The product that changed music forever needed several generations to become itself.
That's the thing nobody tells you about great products.
"The launch isn't the achievement. The launch is the permission to keep going."
She saw her mother recording her while she was playing with her child and didn’t think much of it. But her mother had a video of them playing the exact same way decades ago, when she was little. 🥹❤️
Time really flies.
Apple CEO Tim Cook: "I don't want people looking at their smartphone more than they're looking in someone's eyes."
"If they are just scrolling endlessly, this is not the way you want to spend your day. Go out and spend it in nature."
Luffy voice actress Mayumi Tanaka after receiving the “Best Supporting VA” award at the 20th Seiyuu Awards for her role as Turbo Granny in Dandadan said:
“I don’t think I’ll be able to live as long as Mako-san (Masako Nozawa,Goku Va), but I’ll do my best for another 10 years or so.”
Dear old people, waking up at 6am, tending to a garden, eating dinner at 5pm, reading books, and going to bed at 9:30pm feels amazing.
I was wrong. You were right.
"ONE PIECE" anime is entering the Elbaph Arc next month! ⚔
Set to begin on April 5, 2026, the plan is for the anime to adapt 1 manga chapter per 1 episode starting with the arc.
This is INSANE, Anthropic ran its marketing with basically one person.
Austin lau, a non-technical growth lead, was running paid search, paid social, email, and seo solo.
Here’s the workflow:
> export ad CSVs into Claude Code
> AI flags underperforming ads
> agents generate new headlines + descriptions
> Figma auto-swaps copy across 100 ad templates
> MCP server pulls live Meta data
The results:
> ad creation went from 2 hours to 15 minutes.
> total marketing output grew 10×.
> conversion rates landed 41% above industry average.
One person doing what used to take an entire marketing team.
25 years ago today, we first heard an interesting noise when Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, and Usopp were sailing down the Grand Line…
WAIT… is that a whale?! 🐋
This was the first time the Straw Hat Crew witnessed Laboon in ONE PIECE.