Usirudie kufanya hili kosa, kama muamala umeanzia kwenye hela iliyotokana na utakatishaji unaweza unganishwa kwenye kesi. Muache mhusika awasiliane na mtandao wamrudishie.
My older brother missed my graduation.
No call. No message. Nothing.
Everyone kept asking, “Where is he?” and I just kept smiling, as if it didn’t matter, but it did.
That night, I muted his contact.
Three days later, there was a knock on our door.
He stood there tired, unshaven, holding a small wrapped box.
“I’m sorry,” he said. “I couldn’t leave the site. If I didn’t finish that job, they wouldn’t pay me and I needed the money for this.”
Inside the box was a simple wristwatch.
“I wanted you to have something that reminds you. Your time is just starting.”
I didn’t know whether to cry or feel guilty.
Sometimes, people don’t show up the way we expect them to.
But it doesn’t mean they didn’t care.
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.
The 4 Stages of Wealth
1. Survival – Covering your bills.
2. Security – Having 6 months of financial runway.
3. Independence – Your assets generate enough to cover your bills.
4. Abundance – Your assets cover both your lifestyle and your legacy.
Understand the stage you are in and focus on moving to the next one.