HARLEM STOOP GARDEN
Urban dwellers are especially good at making the best use of limited space in creating their gardens. This one, seen on a recent walk, has an eclectic mix of elements - everything including the kitchen sink (see second photo). It also has an added ingredient that most suburban gardens don’t - rat poison to keep those pests away. So much to see and grow in such a small space.
She is blunt and demoralizing:
In one meeting, Abramson was upset with a photograph that was on the homepage. Rather than asking for a change to be made after the meeting, she turned to the relevant editor and, according to sources with knowledge of the meeting, said bluntly, “I don’t know why you’re still here. If I were you, I would leave now and change the photo.”
He is a demanding and unemotional genius:
“This is really bad,” Cook told the group. “Someone should be in China driving this.” Thirty minutes into that meeting Cook looked at Sabih Khan, a key operations executive, and abruptly asked, without a trace of emotion, “Why are you still here?”
Khan, who remains one of Cook’s top lieutenants to this day, immediately stood up, drove to San Francisco International Airport, and, without a change of clothes, booked a flight to China with no return date, according to people familiar with the episode. The story is vintage Cook: demanding and unemotional.
(h/t Farhad Manjoo, via Andrew Golis and Joseph Hughes)
