Apple just named its next CEO. He doesn’t have a LinkedIn profile picture. Because he’s never job searched.
John Ternus joined Apple in July 2001 straight out of Penn mechanical engineering. He has been at one company for 25 years. His title the entire time: some flavor of hardware engineering. He has never run an OS team, an AI lab, or a services business. The board picked him over Craig Federighi (software), Eddy Cue (services), and Johny Srouji (the actual chip designer).
At a $4 trillion company that just spent two years getting publicly criticized about Siri.
Apple Silicon is the AI moat. Every iPhone shipping today runs a Neural Engine that does on-device inference no competitor can match at that power envelope. The reason ChatGPT and Gemini run in the cloud is they need a building full of GPUs to do what an A18 Pro does in your pocket at 3 watts. That gap is widening.
Whoever controls the silicon controls the unit economics of AI. Nvidia controls training. Apple controls inference at the edge. Google is the only other company with both ends, and their consumer hardware ships under 40M Pixels a year vs Apple's 230M+ iPhones.
Ternus has run hardware engineering since 2013. He shipped the iPhone Air, the M-series Macs, the iPhone 17. He worked side-by-side with the chip team on every major architecture transition: the A-series, the M1 break from Intel, the Neural Engine roadmap. He doesn't need to learn what's coming because he scoped it.
The board's read: AI is a vertical integration problem. The only person who's been in every architecture review for the last decade is the one who just got the job.
Tim's bet was supply chain. John's bet is the stack.
The guy with no posts about it just inherited the most important hardware company in the world.
5/ The bigger shift:
It's not just about controlling which LLM you call.
It's about governing every action an agent takes — every tool, every API, every data source.
Your body can survive on almost anything for about 20-30 years.
Youth compensates for terrible dietary choices through sheer metabolic resilience.
Then the bill comes due.
At 18, you can eat pizza and drink beer daily. Your body processes it. You stay lean. You feel fine.
At 35, same diet: weight gain, fatigue, inflammation, "metabolic syndrome."
What changed? Your compensatory mechanisms exhausted themselves.
Your body was running on reserves, patching problems, working overtime to process incompatible inputs.
Eventually the reserves run out. The patches fail. The overtime becomes unsustainable.
The diet didn't change. Your capacity to compensate for a shit diet ran out.
This is why young people think they can eat anything.
They're burning credit they don't know they're accruing.
The interest comes due in your 30s and 40s.
Diwali is a time to express gratitude and share warmth with those around us.
In that spirit, students from Rawdat al Quran al Kareem in #Mumbai created heartfelt artwork and prepared sweets and nutritious meals to share with the unsung heroes who keep our city running every day!
@Bohras_India
"The hare can win. The tortoise can also win. But not trying never wins."
Our co-founder Kumar Vembu sums up Zoho's journey with this old Tamil saying. Amidst all the love and adoption we’re receiving, he also reflects on the principles that have helped us grow.
👉 https://t.co/Y5gP9Lzzgt
AI is changing data engineering interviews quite a bit!
- grinding leetcode is out, correcting AI generated code is in
- sweating over SQL is out, diving deep into contextual data modeling is in
- systems design is still king, Martin Kleppmann’s book still extremely important
- random Hadoop trivia is out, knowing data lake architectures are in
Some companies are still clinging onto outdated ways of interviewing and these changes will take some time. By 2030, I hope the phrase “grinding leetcode” will look as weird as punch card programming from yesteryear!
If you really want to learn or achieve something, you will find a way. If not, you will likely find an excuse.
- "don't have the time."
- "job keeps me occupied."
- "will start when things settle down."
- "don't have the right resources."
- or the classic - "education system ruined me"
These are understandable, but if it truly matters to you, you will find time, energy, and resources. Simple.
Load Balancers went out of memory 🤯
Atlassian faced an outage and their load balancers went out of memory. I just dissected their RCA and published a video explaining the same. Going through this will make you realize that Load Balancers are not magic :)
give it a watch - https://t.co/8IEENNrthV
Published the video after 4 months, I kind of forgot my usual outro :D kuch to random hi bola hai end me.
ps: admissions in my feb cohort are open, enroll - https://t.co/nnhcj5gQzH
During his recent stopover in Dubai while travelling from Mumbai to Cairo, Sultan al Bohra Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, exchanged conversations with the Consul General of India, H.E. Satish Kumar Sivan @cgidubai, and the Consul General of the Arab Republic of Egypt, H.E. Hossam Hussein Ismail, at Dubai Airport @DXB.
The leader of the worldwide Dawoodi Bohra community, His Holiness Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, was presented with ‘Nishan-e-Pakistan’, the country’s highest civilian award by Hon'ble @PresOfPakistan Dr @ArifAlvi today at Aiwan e Sadr (President House).
The award is in recognition of Syedna’s continued contribution to social services such as health, education and the environment, and for promoting global peace and harmony. (1/2)