Founder, @DaywardAI. I help companies position and explain their AI, and I build things with it. 22 years at Apple. Not investment advice.
San Jose, California
Joined December 2006
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Here’s an Apple secret:
Success comes from culture, not technology.
Like many at Apple, I worked for many years under John Brandon, our longtime head of sales. He had his “Top Ten Rules for Success” which I carried around and lived by.
It’s easy to spot someone from Brandon’s team by how they collaborate. I tried to be one of them. I mopped the floor (literally at times), I shared everything I knew without gatekeeping, I always assumed the customer knew their business.
I think about AI the same way. Most AI advice right now is for builders. Almost nobody is helping the marketers, sales engineers, and execs who actually have to put AI in front of customers. That’s the gap I work in.
I left Apple last month after 22 years. After some thinking and a lot of conversations, I’m now doing what I did inside Apple, but for other organizations: AI positioning, helping businesses understand AI, and creating Apple-level presentations and content.
ALT Image: JB Top 10 Rules for Success — John Brandon Let go of the old, focus on future Always tell the truth, bad news sooner than later Highest level of ethics, when in doubt ask Learn to be a good business person, not just a great sales person Everybody sweeps the floor Be professional in your style, speech, and follow through Listen to your customer, they almost always “get it” Create “win-win” relationships with our customers Look out for each other, sharing information is a good thing Don’t take yourself too seriously
Every lecture on intelligence and the future should have interpretive dance and harp accompaniment! @longnow
Made it to the @longnow Entangled Intelligences event! Exciting lineup, @davideagleman @notreallylanier @claire_i_webb and more!
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Made it to the @longnow Entangled Intelligences event! Exciting lineup, @davideagleman @notreallylanier @claire_i_webb and more!
You can stream it live if you aren’t here in person longnow.org/entangled/
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It’s live. First portable AI cluster in the world. Thanks @fdotinc for the space
Screens 5 is my go-to VNC client on my Mac, excited for high performance mode for local connections!
If you run agents on remote Macs, go get Screens 5.10 NOW.
Finally, a third-party app has brought Apple's High Performance mode to iPhone and iPad.
It's glorious. My review: macstories.net/reviews/scree…
Inspired by @garrytan and @ClaudeDevs I'm running this on every project this morning, burning my free Fable reset and weekly reset!
Make sure you update your app and/or claude code to latest first.
"lets use fable 5.2 to audit this repo and come up with most impactful new features or bug fixes we could do to improve it. Start a new thread and use subagents if it makes sense. Note the guidelines in claude.dev/blog/which-claude…"
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Which Claude model should you build with?
Our new guide breaks down when to use Fable 5.2, Opus 5.5, Sonnet or Haiku. It also covers when to adjust effort instead of switching models, and how to save cost by putting subagents on smaller models.
claude.dev/blog/which-claude…
Single AI prompt->finished object
I asked Claude Opus 5.5 to make a cat kibble scoop with our cat's pictures on it, i gave it a sticker i had already made and a photo of the filament colors i had loaded. It came back with a finished multicolor design, no edits needed. I just uploaded the design and printed it.
We really are living in the most amazing time. 🚀🚀🚀
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We can do hard things!
There is a mysterious intermittent beep coming from somewhere in your room of unopened boxes. Do you:
1. Open boxes methodically until you find it
2. Vibe code software to triangulate it using two laptops, two iPads and a phone all listening at once simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/9…
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Apple really should redo its entire software team with people who are all the way spun up on software factories. Instantly all these legendarily buggy apps like TV or Calendar will be insanely good, redone by teams of a few people and a hundred codegen agents.
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TensorFold is coming to Omarchy 🚀
TensorFold recipes are already in Omarchy's local AI catalogue for Qwen3.8-27B, Flash Next and Nemotron 3.5 Bolt.
Seeing that is pretty wild. 🤯
Huge thanks to @dhh and the Omarchy contributors for all the work that went into this.
I want local AI to be easier and faster to use on your own machine, and I'm really excited to contribute to this.
github.com/omacom/omarchy-lo…
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Some asked me about Asahi’s changes and the impact it has on my work.
Here’s a good summary.
Also, at this point my work is based on @AuroraSilicon, not Asahi. Aurora forked from Asahi long ago. Everything I work on is new code - that’s how we got M3, M4, M5, M6 and Neo support which Asahi still doesn’t have.
Apple Intelligence and AI Siri is a three-year-old product plan that only just now with the upcoming 27.3 releases will be feature complete. It’s a chat prompt girl in an agentic world.
Internally in my experience Apple is AI-hostile and outside of isolated teams is not using AI seriously for almost any functions. You can’t implement for customers what you don’t believe in for yourself.
Two easy fixes for Ternus: too many directors and VP’s who are rich and at retirement age and have no motivation to learn new things. And too many b-player managers with 1 or 2 or 3 direct reports who don’t want to see their staff succeed.
NEW in Power On: Apple CEO John Ternus held a closed-door meeting with Craig Federighi in the last few weeks, pushing his software chief to accelerate Apple’s AI road map and move beyond Siri improvements amid concerns about falling behind rivals. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
Idea: use AI to make an info sheet for an event and share with friends. @slashlast30days was super useful for this.
Here’s mine for underworld/moby in LA tonight, 90’s zine style!
moby-zine-bq3fs.sprites.app/
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