The Macintosh way
by Guy Kawasaki · first published 1990
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That backpack anecdote is a play straight out of Guy Kawasaki's The Macintosh Way (http://www.amazon.com/MacIntosh-Way-Guy-Kawasaki/dp/00609733...), which is on Joel's recommended reading list for managers (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FogCreekMBACurriculum...).
on “Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby” ↗Guy Kawasaki is an early Apple employee who wrote the book "The Macintosh Way" among others. Roert Kiyosaki wrote Rich Dad, Poor Dad : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kiyosaki
on “The 4-Hour Dentist” ↗…hundreds of development teams. Each one is different. I don't think I disclosed any secrets and I was very careful to not say anything that might embarrass Apple. I think Guy Kawasaki's first book, The Macintosh Way, goes much further than my comments here – and he was even rehired back at Apple several years after his book was published. My hope is two fold. 1. That someone reading this would pick up some good…
on “Coding tricks I learnt at Apple” ↗…point 11. Explaining would ruin Kawasaki's story. Rereading just now, I'm amused that was the only Gassée lesson I remembered. I like Kawasaki just fine. The followups I'd read didn't really land like Macintosh Way did. But I see now that he kept writing, all of which are rated highly. So I retract my judgement. YMMV.
on “The Macintosh Way (1990) [pdf]” ↗…complete build and thus a great deal of duplication made it very much less efficient? And in general how poorly that software development model worked? I see in Wikipedia "in Guy Kawasaki's book The Macintosh Way, Lotus Jazz was described as being so bad, 'even the people who pirated it returned it'." I was working in the Boston are in the 1980s and knew a lot of people who'd worked for Lotus or coworkers or…
on “Ask HN: What are examples of startups that died by the hands of Big Tech?” ↗Per Guy Kawasaki (The Macintosh Way), the sincerity of Jean-Louis Gassée's feedback was inversely proportional to the level of praise. That anecdote prompted me to do the same (in corporate battlefields). Works great.
on “Sam Altman's been fired before. The polarizing past of OpenAI's reinstated CEO” ↗…functions entrants thought would work, and then check if the company is still around. Utterback tracks components of dominant designs, over product category maturity. =Handy way to think! F3 = Kawasaki's MACINTOSH WAY, ART OF THE START 2nd edition, and SELLING THE DREAM Kawasaki's analytical framework has two elements: First, product superiority. Gather product superiority component by component into a product that…
on “Ask HN: I'm a good programmer, I know nothing about marketing. Where do I start?” ↗…City Software." I don't know anything about Fog City Software (so this probably makes me partially wrong), but he did not start ACIUS. He took over as CEO from one of the founders (chronicled in The Macintosh Way -- and just to prove I'm not a Guy-hater, I have a signed copy of that book). :-) He did start garage.com, so I suppose you could count that as a startup. But he was already rich by the time he did all…
on “The Art of Execution” ↗…hard disk thrash. You are aware you don't have to use Adobe software to read PDFs right? I've got 7+MB PDF books (as in 500 pages or so), OSX's Preview loads them in a fraction of a second. Even "The Macintosh Way" (40MB of scanned images) takes barely half a second. That's not enough time to start an empty instance of Word
on “Stop sending .DOC files as mail attachments There is a better way” ↗The four books are: The Macintosh Way (1989) Database 101 (1991) -- pdf does not include free disk inside, wow I'm old Computer Curmudgeon (1992) What the Plus! Google+ for the Rest of Us (2012) http://www.yousendit.com/download/WUJZZUNndWNlaFRMYnRVag…
on “Guy Kawasaki - Four free books” ↗The Macintosh way is interesting for technology history, insider stories and technology marketing. Database 101 is dated but probably still relevant to learn database basics. WTP is mainly interesting if you want to make…
on “Guy Kawasaki - Four free books” ↗