Nash

I enjoyed this book. It takes a contrarian view to productivity. Think of this book that comes after you've read everything on motivation, productivity and mastery and you're still frustrated by all the things you expect of yourself and fail. Well, this books makes you face your mortality. It addressed the underlying reason for your discomfort: your limited time, your finite-ness. Till you embrace you can't do everything, you'll always feel inadequate. This books helps to reframe the human experience. Once you embrace your limitations... you are set free from angst.

A great, fun read

I really enjoyed reading this book both as an engineer, a product designer and a CEO. This is a great “view from below” of how an engineer's day was at Apple working on the next great thing and this has some great lessons. One striking thing about the way Apple worked (and maybe still does) was by assigning vast amounts of time and ownership to a feature. Ken worked on the iOS keyboard for years, same with the Safari browser. That kind of luxury is largely gone in the internet-time world where sprints are 2-weeks long, there's a major launch every quarter and so on. But this is only how you can create really deep, well-thought our products. There's a great lesson here about that, and I highly recommend you read it.