Ryan D\u2019Agostino, writing at Esquire:<\/p>\n
Cook was at Jobs\u2019s house the day he died. As he drove back to the
\noffice to announce it to the employees and, in so doing, to the
\nworld, he felt a strange kind of shock\u2009\u2014\u2009strange because Jobs had
\nbeen sick for so long, had even refused medicine when he was first
\ndiagnosed, instead trying to cure the disease with fruit juices,
\nand so there should have been no shock at all.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy that time, unfortunately, there was an inevitability to it,\u201d
\nCook says. \u201cBut I was in denial for so long about the disease and
\nwhere it would go, because I had watched him bounce back so many
\ntimes, I assumed he always would. When I took the CEO role, I
\nthought he was going to be executive chairman forever\u2009\u2014\u2009that\u2019s
\nwhat I thought literally six weeks earlier. Looking back, I know
\nsomebody could say, How could you think that, given the
\ncircumstances? But that\u2019s not the way I was wired in that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
D\u2019Agostino, fondly recalling the Apple IIe his family got for Christmas in 1983, wrongly remembers that, \u201cWhen we turned it on, there was a little trash can in the corner of the screen.\u201d Don\u2019t let that conflation of the IIe and the Macintosh (yet to come in 1983) turn you off. It\u2019s a good profile. Cook\u2019s thoughts on Steve Jobs are touching, and D\u2019Agostino gets Cook to expound upon his strategy of \u201cengagement\u201d with the Trump administration to a degree that I don\u2019t think any other interviewer has. Cook\u2019s answer is over 400 words, and Esquire, to their credit, ran the whole thing.<\/p>\n
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