Resign. https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-name-zuckerberg-ellison-huang-tech-panel-wsj-reports-2026-03-25/

Even more than most AI companies, Meta has never explained why it cares about the technology or how it will improve the world. So far, it’s damaged the company’s properties tremendously.

Flipboard’s Surf, which I first wrote about in 2024, is finally available without an invite as a web and Android app. (iOS still has a waitlist.) It’s a wildly inventive and invigorating way to find stuff that’s actually worth reading, watching, and listening to. https://www.fastcompany.com/91520679/surf-flipboard

I guested on our Most Innovative Companies podcast to talk about Apple’s early history and my oral history about it. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/most-innovative-companies/id1576874503?i=1000758930856

As I never tire of mentioning, Microsoft seriously considered buying PC Magazine not long after it launched in 1982. https://www.wsj.com/cmo-today/openai-buys-tech-industry-talk-show-tbpn-484c01c5?st=RUVFWn

This story is mostly about NeXT, but also seems worth re-sharing today. https://www.fastcompany.com/90541084/this-unheard-steve-jobs-tape-is-part-of-an-amazing-trove-of-tech-history

I don‘t quite go back to 1976 as an Apple-watcher, but here’s a piece I wrote about having m socks blasted right off by a Lisa demo at the Boston Computer Society in 1983. https://www.fastcompany.com/40514962/this-1983-demo-says-so-much-about-apples-past-present-and-future

Apple’s homepage has a fun 50th anniversary product video, but I’m still mystified by the company’s failure to celebrate these two guys named Steve. https://www.apple.com/

When I talked to Woz last week for this oral history, he told me that he considers *tomorrow* to be Apple’s 50th anniversary. His reasoning is above my pay grade (“Our human calendar is very weak”). But it delights me, because it’s also my birthday. https://www.fastcompany.com/91514404/apple-founding-50th-anniversary-apple-1-apple-ii-jobs-wozniak?mvgt=RkD1c7U8rLh7