9 Best Articles in 2021
First Round
Radical Candor — The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss
First Round
10 min read · From 2015 · Kim Scott cut her teeth as a manager at Apple and Google, and now helps create great leaders as an author and coach for companies like Twitter. Here's the secret that's made all the difference for her.
Esquire
Why Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Need to Be Disrupted
Esquire
20+ min read · From 2018 · Four companies dominate our daily lives unlike any other in human history. The only logical conclusion? We must bust up big tech.
medium.com
Progressive Web Apps on iOS are here 🚀
medium.com
~11 min read · From 2018 · With iOS 11.3, Apple has silently added support for the basic set of new technologies behind the idea of “Progressive Web Apps” (PWAs)…
medium.com
How to Make $80,000 Per Month on the Apple App Store
medium.com
9 min read · From 2017 · It’s far easier than you think. No luck or perseverance necessary.
The New Yorker
The Shape of Things to Come
The New Yorker
From 2017 · Inside the top-secret lab where the world’s most powerful design team created the Apple Watch.
Fast Company
Forget the new iPhones: Apple’s best product is now privacy
Fast Company
6 min read · From 2018 · Under Tim Cook’s leadership, Apple saw just how critical an issue user privacy would become. Now it’s at least as important a feature as shiny industrial design or a nice camera.
The Outline
Apple is really bad at design
The Outline
~13 min read · From 2017 · Let me just rip this band-aid off...
medium.com
The Future is Without Apps — Fwd: Thoughts — Medium
medium.com
8 min read · From 2016 · How we may soon no longer need to install apps with help from Google and Surprisingly: Apple.
WIRED UK
The untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn startup driving Apple, Amazon and Facebook
WIRED UK
20+ min read · From 2018 · If you have ever bought anything on Amazon, subscribed to Spotify or paid for a Lyft ride, you may be surprised to learn that software company Stripe may have processed your payment. Unlike PayPal, the $20 billion startup operates quietly in the background and won’t show up on your credit card bill. In Wired magazine, British journalist Steven Armstrong provides a colorful portrait of the company’s founders and their mission to facilitate e-commerce around the world.
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WIRED UK
We need to talk about Apple’s surveillance empire
WIRED UK
3 min read · Oct 11th · Apple has taken a public stand on privacy, curtailing data abuses by apps and declaring it doesn’t exploit its users’ information. But it has also created comprehensive new ways to track us
Judd Legum
Bad Apple
Judd Legum
5 min read · Sep 28th · Apple does not want the public to think of the company only as a profit-obsessed manufacturer of iPhones, AirPods, and MacBooks. Rather, Apple would like to be viewed as a responsible corporate…
Fast Company
The untold story of how Apple built a retail empire on trial and error
Fast Company
~12 min read · Oct 14th · In his new book ‘Make to Know,’ ArtCenter College of Design President Lorne Buchman reveals how Apple’s iconic retail store design owes less to the visionary genius of Steve Jobs than to a…
