Definitely worth chatting with your manager. Sometimes an internal move is all it takes get on a career path you are excited about

They probably just readjust their currency hedges

> They probably just readjust their currency hedges

How would you propose that work? Hedging currency risk against unsold product isn’t a hedge, it’s a directional bet.

So many companies have flatlined after a new CEO took over, think Microsoft after Ballmer took over. So I think there is some difficulty involve.

I guess my point is that the leadership within Apple is a lot more diffuse than typical;

I believe most of Apple's value is from delivering a high degree of consistency and polish; owing to its culture of relentlessly developing the UX of their products.

Therefore the CEO's primary roles at Apple would be to maintain that culture, steer the ship into new segments, and discern when the public will care about those segments.

I think Cook has done a decent job of that.

Making it all possible with RnD and supply chain is another story, but also where Cook is known to excel so maybe I'm underselling him. Jobs had Cook so presumably Cook would find a Cook if he weren't Cook.

I don't know much about Microsoft but Balmer was definitely taking over a different beast than Cook.

If I let my bias show I'd say Microsoft's value is from developing technology just enough to set up bill gates for customers :p

Thousands seems high for the largest company in the world with potentially the most complex supply chain ever assembled. And that doesn't even mention the political issues that need to be navigated.

Your choices I imagine are the other Apple executives and the CEO of another International technology and/or manufacturing (potentially) company.

"the most complex supply chain ever assembled."

Right, all the people running Amazon, Wallmart, Nasa, BMW, Tesla, Spacex, managing contructuon of nuclear powerplants have no knowledge of supply chains.

You know, an iPhone or a macbook has more parts than an A380

It's a very interesting topic, but clearly the investors/board got what they wanted so they are giving him the payout. It was tied to a goal and they got that goal. So presumably the people paying are happy to pay him that amount.

Would he have reached/pushed for a particularly aggressive goal for less? Could someone else have achieved that goal for less?

No doubt there is some element of personal relationships between everyone in the compensation committee and the ceo.

In distributed databases that offer transaction semantics, they need timestamps to order transactions that take place. A tighter synchronization of clocks mean they can execute transactions faster because they can reduce the amount of time they wait (based on the potential clock drift between machines in the data center)

Wouldn’t it be better to put the effort towards designing a system that doesn’t need precise timekeeping?

Internet search algorithms are bit of an adversarial competition against bad content, no? Given the amount of money at stake for beating the search algorithm, shouldn't we expect any search engine to decline in usefulness over time?

> Given the amount of money at stake for beating the search algorithm, shouldn't we expect any search engine to decline in usefulness over time?

Internet search algorithms should be worth significantly more (and I imagine that this is the case; e.g., I doubt that the combined value of all spam sites together matches Alphabet's market cap).

Given that internet search companies should also have an edge acquiring talent, you would expect that internet search algorithms would win this fight.

The problem with aliasing is that it undermines the ability of users to refine their searches, especially in the case of Google with its unclear semantics for terms within quote marks.

I've switched to using DDG as my first search engine of choice because, while its ranking of sites initially is generally weaker than Google's, it gives me much more power to subsequently refine searches.

The problem gets harder and harder as the trash gets more SEO

The problem gets harder and harder because trash generates profit, not because Google is fighting a holy war with the SEO hackers in an attempt to clear the web for us end users...

Retention of very senior people really comes down to those people and their personal reasons. I don't think it's a group of people who all want the same thing, so it's impossible to make a general retention plan.

And realistically, the reason you want them to stay is because they are someone who has figured out how to operate and impact the organization without needing too much guidance or direction.

But I think it's why there are all the generic lifestyle perks and competition for titles like "Best Place To Work".