The Dearies Are Responsible. Bot You You Need It

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The dearies were, were responsible. Bot you you need it. You needed to bring him proposals, right? The point is, is that if you brought him shoddy work, thatwas like the equivalent of a shoulder shrug. That was a way to to never get invited back to a demorat is a way to get invite, not invited, back to the devil.

In this wide-ranging conversation from April 2019, a16z’s Frank Chen sits down with Ken Kocienda, a longtime software engineer and designer at Apple from 2001 to 2017, who wrote a book about his career there, called Creative Selection.

They discuss Ken’s unconventional path from freelance photographer to software engineer at Apple, his work on many core products from Safari web browser to iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch and features like Autocorrect, what it was like to demo new products for Steve Jobs, and more.