Tim Cook reveals a surprising truth about hiring at the world's biggest tech company:
You don't need to know how to code to work at Apple.
"We hire people from all walks of life and people that have college degrees, people that don't. People that code, people that don't."
Tim is a vocal advocate for learning to code, but not because it's a prerequisite for getting hired. He sees it as something far broader:
"I do recommend coding for everyone to learn because I think it's a form of expressing yourself and it's a global language and it's the only global language that we all share is coding."
So if coding isn't the golden ticket, what is?
Tim explains that the traits he values most have nothing to do with technical credentials. There are three that matter above all else.
The first is collaboration.
Not just the willingness to work with others, but a deep, genuine belief that teams produce better outcomes than individuals ever could:
"Can they really collaborate? Do they deeply believe that one plus one equals three?"
The second is curiosity.
@tim_cook gravitates toward people who are relentless in their need to understand, people who never stop probing how the world works and why people think the way they do:
"I think curiosity is a trait that I love about people, about people that ask questions that are so curious about how things work, how people think. All of the why and how questions."
The third is creativity.
This is where everything comes together. Apple's entire model depends on anticipating needs that consumers haven't even recognised yet:
"We're looking for people that can see around the corner because ultimately we want to create products that people can't live without, but they didn't know they needed."
Collaboration. Curiosity. Creativity. None of them show up on a résumé, and none of them require a degree. But according to Tim Cook, they're exactly what makes a great team player at Apple.
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The dura is the brain's armor: a membrane so tough that a surgeon normally cuts through it with a scalpel. For the first time in our clinical trials, we inserted the electrode threads of our implant straight through the dura and into the cortex, keeping the dura intact.
Here's how we did it 🧵
Neuralink has solved through-dura electrode implantation!
This is a very big deal, as it greatly improves the safety and ease of interfacing with the brain.
Neuralink just solved a very serious brain-interface problem.
Through-dura electrode implantation.
The dura is basically the brain’s armor.
Tough enough that surgeons normally cut through it with a scalpel.
Neuralink inserted electrode threads straight through the dura and into the cortex while keeping the dura intact.
Tiny threads.
Very tough membrane.
No casual little engineering problem.
This could make brain implants safer, simpler, and much easier to perform.
@Neuralink / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné
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Jensen Huang told a room of global investors that Al is not one industry. It is five stacked on top of each other.
Most people are investing in layer four and ignoring layers one through three entirely.
He called it the five-layer cakes THAT WERE
NOT TALKING ABOUT
Layer one is energy. Jensen said this is the single greatest opportunity for the energy industry in a hundred years.
The first time in a century that the grid in most countries can actually attract serious capital. Nuclear, solar, wind, hydrogen, it does not matter what form. If it produces energy, it gets funded. Siemens, GE Vernova, Mitsubishi.
That is why they are all doing so well right now.
Layer two is chips, computers, networking, and silicon photonics. Everything that processes the intelligence.
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