I realized this morning that I have some really important people on my team.
People who get just as insulted as I do when SJ's name or one of our designers name gets thrown under the bus. @kim_rushton was the first founding member of my newsletter and was just filled with admiration for our work building transformational experiences for the public.
It's not often we get to hear about how our work directly touched someone's life. None of us can take sole credit but the design team is A LOT smaller than most would imagine (less than 50 people when we're doing it right).
I won't name any names in the interests of protecting Kim's relationships but she shared intimate details about what it is like working in @DevOps work cultures where admiring the work of the Apple Design Team comes with punishment if you don’t frown upon it. Something I could relate to in more cases than I care to remember.
Thanks for being on my team Kim and for helping the company with our next big challenge:
Teaching design teams & higher education that you CAN learn about how the seven wonders of the world were actually built and in order to work with us, @building needs to be your @corevaluesystem.
Subscriber cloud vs. Member cloud
I watched a WWDC session this year that wouldn't stop talking about how much value a person can bring to their 'customers'. Real value only really gets created when we place @humanneeds first. The customer focus over human focus is a virus.
Notifications in 2024 are the banner ads of 1999,
only now you miss meetings if you don't have them enabled.
Every vendor and app developer today fights to use @notifications without restraint or quality control and the customer/subscriber focus over human needs identification is infecting ecosystem and sustainable development in horribly negative ways.
This isn't something that would have ever made it past Eddy Cue.