Maybe not your left toe, but your left lung? Living in California today means signing up for multiple months of smoke inhalation, which is a problem that only

Maybe not your left toe, but your left lung? Living in California today means signing up for multiple months of smoke inhalation, which is a problem that only seems to be getting worse. Not to mention that the Apple of today isn’t the Apple of 10 years ago either. This is coming from someone who worked at Apple ~10 years ago (14 years ago to be exact), and would have agreed with your statement ~10 years ago. I recently moved away from the West Coast because I have no interest in being part of the cohort analysis on the effects of prolonged smoke exposure over multiple months per year. Also, just to throw this out there, 10 years ago you had a high likelihood of having your own office at Apple. Now it’s an open office layout like anywhere else. Looks pretty from the outside I hear though. Edit: One additional point I find fascinating. When referred to in the aggregate, Apple employees are the “best and the brightest.” However, when they express their opinions of what they want, they’re immediately dismissed as “privileged.” I understand that these aren’t mutually exclusive, but I am always surprised how unwilling we are to listen to these people that we in theory hold up as paragons of the industry. It’s a bizarre infantilization of people we hypothetically respect.