#breakout-roles

#breakout-roles

When performers fall out of sync, even the best improv starts to break down. Innovation is a team sport, and skill alone won't yield favourable results.

Tim Cook described John Ternus as 'a brilliant engineer and thinker who has spent the past 25 years building the Apple products our users love so much, obsessed with every detail, focused on every possible way we can make something better, bolder, more beautiful, and more meaningful.'

"I felt like that pseudonym gave me some freedom, like some permission to just be my authentic self."

"When you talk to people about breaking them down, they feel like they're going to get flattened. This negative perception of breaking down siloes can impact the organization's ability to solve the siloes in the first place."

Meta's new Model Capability Initiative will track the mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes of its US employees to generate high-quality training data for future AI agents. This software will operate on specific work-related apps and websites, and will also utilize periodic screenshots to provide context for the AI training.

The CIOs I most want to work with are the ones who haven't abandoned either role. They're genuinely curious about how the infrastructure works, not just what it delivers.

Engineers who love building, mentoring, and solving complex problems don't need to manage people to keep growing. You can lead through influence instead. Technical mastery once guaranteed advancement. For engineers, data scientists, designers, and other experts, the career ladder used to be clear: learn deeply, deliver reliably, and get promoted. But at some point, progress begins to feel less like learning new tools and more like learning new ways to influence.