I love that story, that it was sort of a a game that led to it as too. So let's squitch, switch gars a little bit and talk about sort of your advice for young people who are thinking about getting into the computer industry. E, sort of, you know, brat degree, computer science degree, what set of life experiences like? What's his general advice for people who want to join a tut company? Ye, i think it needs to be a mix. I think if you're going to be a programmer, a, y, go right programmes. The only way to get better at things is to do them.
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.