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Today is Tim Cook's last day as CEO at Apple.
I first met Tim in 2014 and I've been fortunate to call him a mentor and friend ever since. I want to share something about him that I've found remarkable.
He's the best example I've seen of an old Zen saying:
"What do you do before enlightenment? Chop wood, carry water. What do you do after enlightenment? Chop wood, carry water."
When we met, I was just starting my career in finance. I was getting to the gym at 4:45am so I could get to the office by 6:30. Tim happened to be one of a tiny group of others who showed up every morning at that early hour.
For the first six months, I had no idea who he was. I wasn't in tech and, having played college sports, I was frankly quite oblivious to the entire business world.
I remember being shocked after someone told me that the guy I was talking to in the mornings was the CEO of Apple.
For two reasons:
1. He had zero pretension about him. I never would have known how important or powerful he was.
2. He was already successful. Why the hell was he waking up at 4am to go to the gym?
Now, to be fair, in 2014, there were still questions about whether he was going to be an impactful successor to the legend that was Steve Jobs. A lot of people weren't sure he would be able to fill those enormous shoes.
But a few years later, he was still there. He had created a trillion dollars of value. People were calling him one of the best CEOs in the world. And he was still showing up at 4:45am. Still doing the same thing.
Chop wood, carry water.
As you start to experience success, notoriety, and achievement, it’s easy to lose sight of the work that got you those things in the first place. It’s easy to get distracted by results. By recognition. By the illusion that success somehow exempts you from the basics.
It doesn’t.
The outcomes may change. The titles may change. The scale may change. But the work doesn’t.
Chopping wood and carrying water means showing up when no one is watching. Doing the boring work well. Being reliable. Executing consistently. Returning to fundamentals even when you think you’re above them. Especially then.
Tim has been an example of that in my life. I'm grateful for having been able to see it up close.
And I also know that whatever he does next, the same thing will apply.
Chop wood, carry water.
Apple CEO Tim Cook says neither a degree nor coding skills get you hired at Apple :
"People that code, People that don't" . Even though he calls coding "the only global language that we all share."
Instead, he screens for three traits: collaboration rooted in deep belief that "one plus one equals three," genuine curiosity about how things and people work, and creativity that lets people "see around the corner."
The logic is that research tells you what customers want today, but only a person can sense what they'll need in three years.
As Cook puts it, the goal is to "get ahead of the curve" and together these traits make a great team player.
For nearly 15 years, I sent @tim_cook a weekly report every Sunday night on the global App Store business. My team and I packed it with data, charts, and commentary on what was happening around the world.
Most weeks: silence. Every so often, a probing question would come back about a specific metric or market. Or, better, a note congratulating us on a strong quarter.
Those reports taught me a lot about discipline and accountability. No matter where I was in the world, I sent that report. Tim expected his leaders to know their businesses cold. Whenever I put anything in front of him, I needed to understand not just the numbers, but what was driving them and what we were doing about it. His expectations made me a much better leader.
On my last day at Apple, Tim and I had a 10-minute 1:1 scheduled. We talked for 30. Reflecting on my 21 years at the company, he told me my greatest accomplishment wasn’t helping build a $1 trillion App Store ecosystem or helping scale the business to more than one billion customers. It was the team I had built and the leaders I had developed who were ready to step up after I left. That meant the world to me. We took this photo together right after that conversation.
Today is Tim’s last day as CEO of Apple. Much has been written about what he and the company accomplished under his leadership. But perhaps his greatest legacy is the one he taught me to value: the people he developed, the culture he shaped, and the leaders ready to carry it forward.
I’ll always be grateful I got to be a part of it.
IT'S OFFICIAL! We will use this SONG for the grand entry at the Raila Amolo Odinga Talanta Stadium during the SWEARING-IN CEREMONY of the 6th President Edwin Wakenya Sifuna.
Ni Mungu wa mbinguni ametupa ufungua. It's a hit song!!
This was posted on TikTok by a user named FlocknSince1984. If you didn't already know, @Flock_Safety has been lying repeatedly about their capabilities and use cases, and this proves it.
Hungary's longtime strongman Viktor Orbán spent 16 years building one of the world’s most prominent illiberal democracies.
Now, the country’s new prime minister, Péter Magyar, is trying to tear that old system down.
Can he do this while sticking to democratic norms?
My thoughts:
Reminder to go touch grass
A scientist in Japan demonstrated that the air inside a forest strengthens your immune system for a full month
The study is incredibly fascinating:
Qing Li, an immunologist at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, took 12 men on a 3-day forest trip. These were slow walks with no breathing exercises and no set route.
Then he tested their blood and found a surge in natural killer cells -- the immune cells your body uses to fight cancer and virus-infected cells.
Remarkably, the effect didn't fade when they went home, it was still measurable 30 days later.
A control group that walked the same distance through a city showed no change at all.
Pine, cedar, and cypress trees release compounds called phytoncides to defend themselves from insects and bacteria. You breathe them in, and Li believes they switch your immune cells into high gear.
He estimates one forest walk a month may be enough to keep those cells elevated all year.
The best medicine might not even need a prescription -- just a walk among the trees.
Throughout his tenure, Edwin Sifuna has remained consistent in speaking out and defending the Constitution. In a political environment where positions can shift quickly, consistency and commitment to constitutional principles are qualities worth acknowledging.
Rome built stadiums to stop its own people from rising up. Two thousand years later, we're still walking into the same trap — only we pay for it now.
Al Jazeera's Basel Ghazoghli breaks it down.
The most difficult task in the morning is waking up.
The next difficult task is making your bed.
Once you overcome these tasks in the morning, every battle gets easier during the day.