John Siracusa

And it's like, that's not a scalable system either.

I don't know what you've heard about the don't bring me problems thing, but I feel like that is mostly a healthy dynamic within companies.

And it's not saying never bring me problems.

It's not saying I'll never make any opinion.

It's just saying...

Part of being at this level of management is taking responsibility and working things out amongst yourself, which is, you know, why, like, the forestall thing and everything.

It's like, we can't have this thing where every time anything comes up, you two fight tooth and nail and immediately run to me and say, decide which one of us do you love more.

Like, with every decision, that's not tenable.

And maybe that's the era where that rumor came from, but...

But yeah, I hope Ternus is, I hope Ternus is able to recognize problems before Tim Cook, which is not hard, but still.

And I hope he has been lobbying to like, you know, I know I'm not in that part of the org, but like, like, I hope like, you know, we say Tim Cook reading the room or having his finger on the pulse.

Like, I really hope this is for the one thing I hope for Ternus is that he is better able to accurately assess at any given time.

How is Apple doing?

That's really hard to do when you're high up in the – because it's kind of part of your job is to be like rah-rah Apple or whatever.

But like you have to have a clear-eyed view.

Steve Jobs is really good at that probably because he hated everything, right?

So whatever Apple was doing is like, this is crap.

We could do better, right?

Tim Cook at various times seems to be distracted by his various money-making schemes and other things and not really keeping his eye on the ball.

Like how are we actually doing?