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Learning By Shipping - Medium
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Learning By Shipping - Medium is a personal blog at medium.learningbyshipping.com about hardware, business and design. Since 2016, 72 different Hacker News readers have linked it 115 times, most often “Apple’s Relentless Strategy, Execution, and Point of View”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- Apple’s Relentless Strategy, Execution, and Point of View7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2020-06-26
- “Bicycle of the Mind”6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-08-11
- Reaching Peak Meeting Efficiency6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-05-07
- CES 2019: A Show Report – Learning by Shipping4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-01-14
- The 10th Anniversary of the iPad: A Perspective from the Windows Team4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-01-28
- The App Store Debate: A Story of Ecosystems4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-06-21
- Functional versus Unit Organizations (2016)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-12-11
- Perhaps it is simpler to say that Intel was disrupted3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-07-02
- Steven Sinofsky: WWDC 2017 – Some Thoughts3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-06-12
- CES2020: Primordial Soup of Innovation – Learning by Shipping3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-12
What Hacker News says?
You should feel the opposite, see it as a new tool in your pocket. Industrialisation and computers/automation took away massive amount of jobs while globally improving people lives, this may possibly (maybe not) do the same. If in the future, anybody can write the book, create a photograph or a motion picture or an music album with just few words describing what they have in mind, this will be a tremendous productiv…
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on “Sora: Creating video from text”Submitted Nikon versus Canon: A Story of Technology Change as a story · 239 points
HN discussion> Apple is one of the most capitalistic companies out there, they want you to buy new stuff and they'll try everything they can to force users to upgrade sooner or later The more charitable view is that by not being wedded to backwards compatibility they can make their ecosystem stronger, faster. See https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/apples-relentless-stra... for some discussion of those tradeoffs.
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on “2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test”Submitted Perhaps it is simpler to say that Intel was disrupted as a story · 238 points
HN discussion“When we invented the personal computer, we created a new kind of bicycle…a new man-machine partnership…a new generation of entrepreneurs.” — Steve Jobs, c. 1980 https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/bicycle-121262546097
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on “Go master Lee Se-dol says he quits, unable to win over AI Go players”Submitted “Bicycle of the Mind” as a story · 142 points
HN discussionThe previous head of Windows would disagree with you: https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/apples-relentless-stra...
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on “Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel”Submitted Apple’s Relentless Strategy, Execution, and Point of View as a story · 124 points
HN discussionThis 2016 longish post on Functional vs Unit Orgs by Steven Sinofsky is pretty good on different types of organizations. He shares examples from Apple, Google and his days at Microsoft being a senior leader. Even mentions another HN thread https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/functional-versus-unit...
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on “The Skill of Org Design”Submitted Competing with BigCo as a story · 48 points
HN discussionhttps://medium.learningbyshipping.com/apples-software-proble...
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on “How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software”Submitted Steven Sinofsky Reflects on Steve Jobs' “Bicycle for the Mind” as a story · 19 points
HN discussionBest I have read on meetings including meeting notes is from Steven Sinofsky - goes into different types of meeting, meeting dysfunctions and finally peak meeting function https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/reaching-peak-meeting-...
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on “How to take meeting notes”Submitted Steven Sinofsky: WWDC 2017 – Some Thoughts as a story · 18 points
HN discussionAnd of course Sinofsky from this summer. https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/apples-relentless-stra...
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on “World of Warcraft 9.0.2 client runs natively on Apple Silicon”Submitted Apple’s Software “Problem” and “Fixing” It as a story · 13 points
HN discussionIf you're not very close to the money, that's very hard. You can measure the team's productivity, but going down to the individual level is difficult. The process is also fundamentally political in the sense that it is a zero-sum game: there is almost always a certain budget available, independently of how individual people perform. The best short description I know about the constraints of performance reviews was w…
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on “Choosing the Management Track”Submitted Apple’s Long Journey to the M1 Pro Chip as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSteven Sinofsky (formerly of Microsoft, now at Andreessen Horowitz) recently wrote something similar about Bezos and the power of writing: https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/writing-is-thinking-an...
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on “Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write”Submitted Reaching Peak Meeting Efficiency as a story · 6 points
HN discussionLearning by Shipping article claims Jobs credits "March 1973 Scientific American." [0, 1] Jobs says it in the presence of Brand in this Wired book excerpt [2], to which Ken Kesey [!] replies "It’s the next thing after acid!" [3] 0. https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/bicycle-121262546097 1. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24923004?seq=1#metadata_info_ta... 2. https://www.wired.com/story/how-doug-engelbart-pulled-off-…
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on “Ancient Babylonian Algorithms: The Earliest Programs”Submitted Can “Free Speech” Be “Moderated”? Yes. (2016) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYes! Well, sort of, but a little backstory... Yesterday, I believe, there was an article posted here called, “Perhaps it is simpler to say that Intel…was disrupted”. It was written by Steven Sinofsky (who I wasn't familiar with) but had a look at his Medium posts. There was an interesting article there titled, "Design for an “Audience of One” ( https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/audience-of-one-107bad... ) Funny…
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on “Microsoft: The Early Days (2000)”Submitted New Things in New Ways, or Same Old Things in Old Ways? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionczzr shared this insightful article which makes roughly the same point, but much better: https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/ipad-pro-gets-a-trackp...
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on “Apple finally admits Microsoft was right about tablets”Submitted Management is not about asking people to do stuff as a story · 5 points
HN discussionA much better take on this: https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/ipad-pro-gets-a-trackp...
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on “Apple finally admits Microsoft was right about tablets”Submitted Apple’s Long Journey to the M1 Pro Chip as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think Sinofsky is the best thing I've read on the "office" subject: https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/creating-the-future-of... This really resonated with me: "It will be tempting for some to continue to believe we will return to the old normal and operate as we once did. It will be tempting for others to search for a few changes and make those permanent and hope the rest will go back to normal. Still others w…
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on “Hybrid work is doomed”Submitted Can “Free Speech” Be “Moderated”? Yes. (2016) as a story · 4 points
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