An ingredient of Apple's secret sauce 💎 Issue #41

Plus: Christopher Nolan directing my life and historic figures in gifs.

Happy Friday!

What’s up? 🔝

Here’s the best stuff I found on the Internet this week.

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New to me 💡

What makes Paul Graham a great writer? | 9 min read

I already shared Paul Graham’s articles here, and here and that required some restraint on my part. Even if you don’t agree with the premise of an essay or are particularly interested in the topic you can appreciate the craft, you should always look for ways on how to achieve some of the same effects of good writing.

How Apple Is Organized for Innovation | 22 min read

Apple is not your standard big company. It’s only natural their secret sauce is a collection of too many ingredients to count, but at the macro level is how they are set up as an organization that guarantees all the best ideas come to the surface and executed. “Apple is not a company where general managers oversee managers; rather, it is a company where experts lead experts…hardware experts manage hardware, software experts software, and so on. (Deviations from this principle are rare.) This approach cascades down all levels of the organization through areas of ever-increasing specialization. Apple’s leaders believe that world-class talent wants to work for and with other world-class talent in a specialty.”

If Christopher Nolan Directed Your Life | 2 min watch

As a software engineer and Christopher Nolan fanboy, this video is everything.

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Please help me grow this newsletter! I’d love if you shared it with your more curious friends.

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A most parental tweet ❌

Paul Graham @paulg

Taught 8 yo a rule of thumb for avoiding cults and cult-like things: Avoid groups that tell you not to talk to your family.

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This app I found 📝

Logseq | “Logseq is a privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge sharing and management.” aka, a note-taking app of the 2020’s, aka outliners with bi-directional linking, aka me oversimplifying. I think I’m going to give this one a try, after watching this demo.

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This week in a gif 🎧

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High note ⚡

Last issue most clicked link was The 10 Biggest Money Mistakes.

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Until next week,

Filipe