At that point in your career, you thought it was time to be an engineering managor. But i found very soon after i got into the job that i was miserable,. am that i hadn't really reckoned with what management really is. It's about people. And once that basket byouy, you say the word, and it is one of the best words, perhaps the best word, to describe steve's approach - focus.
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.