This year, Apple reached the end of its iPhone X (read: ten) names. Next year remains a mystery. Apple has gone through all the numbers from one through ten, skipping two and nine for its own reasons. Now, for better or worse, next year, it’ll likely need to figure out a new naming scheme.
Apple hastened its way toward a dead end last year when it decided to switch to Roman numerals rather than continuing with numbers as it had done in the past. A report from Bloomberg at the end of August indicated that the people behind the names struggled to come up with names that would work. Since this year’s iPhones didn’t really change many things beyond last year’s, they didn’t seem compelling enough to grant a whole new name. The cheapest iPhone…
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Speaking to financier and television host David Rubenstein at an event hosted by Economic Club of Washington, DC, the Amazon president and CEO said that he prefers to hold his “high IQ” conferences first thing in the morning at 10 a.m.
“I do my high-IQ meetings before lunch. Like anything that’s going to be really mentally challenging, that’s a 10 o’clock meeting,” he said, according to Axios.
“And by 5 p.m., I’m like, ‘I can’t think about that today. Let’s try this again tomorrow at 10 a.m.'”
If you think the $112 billion man rolls into the office hungover after a night on the town, you’re sorely mistaken.
“I go to bed early and I get up early. I like to putter in the morning. So I like to read the newspaper,” he said “I like to have coffee. I like have breakfast with my kids before they go to school.”
Bezos added that he prioritizes sleep because staying well rested is critical to making “high-quality” business decisions.
“As a senior executive, you get paid to make a small number of high-quality decisions. Your job is not to make thousands of decisions every day,” he said.
“Is that really worth it if the quality of those decisions might be lower because you’re tired or grouchy?”
And how many decisions does he make daily? Three.
“If I make, like, three good decisions a day, that’s enough. Warren Buffett says he’s good if he makes three good decisions a year,” he quipped.
Welcome to the Carfection audio podcast. We’re celebrating our win at the International Motor Film Awards — we also talk about some supercars, but back to how great we are.
