Cook saved Job's Apple? Hardly. Every aspect of today's iPhone violates what Job's stood for. Craig Federighi began his tenure by advertising 200 new features for the new version of iOS. Shortly later he did the same for the Mac. Feature bloat has been Federighi's prime focus. My iPhone is so packed with irrelevancies that is hard to use.
I recently received a battered package similar in appearance to the one shown. According to the USPO clerk packages such as mine once battered accidentally are opened by USPO personal to inspect for damage to the contents and then taped back together. I can imagine shipping labels getting exchanged accidentally in such a situation.
As one grows older, one is responsible for building one's own motivation. This is relatively easy to do.
To build motivation I spend time actually day-dreaming about success. I am trying to get an emotional involvement with an exact vision of what success would be like. I want to emotionally experience success and develop a yearning for it.
That is what I need to get started on a project. Once I'm started, I find that it is often easy to get so involved in what I'm doing that it becomes hard to stop. Remember those all-nighters when you just couldn't bare to stop. You were in the grove. You were hot!
That's it. Get emotionally involved with success and get in the grove to get it done.
I politely suggest that the point of politics is to get elected or re-elected. Politicians don't try to convince others. They use talking points known to be already favored by voters.
It's leaders you are thinking of. JFK, Bernie Sanders, and AOL are some of the very few that come to mind.
In 1968 all we had was McCracken's short book on FORTRAN and a large number of utterly inpenetrable IBM manuals. When IBM finally came out with "FORTRAN Programmers Guide", it was revolutionary. Asking other programmers was very useful.
None of this is useful for you other than discussing things with fellow programmers.
It's called Epiphany Workflow. It's on the Apple App Store. I charge $20 for it. I'm making absolutely no money on it. Just now I changed the price to Free. I hope it's useful. Feed back in hugely important.
I wrote an app for reviewing and highlighting websites and most computer documents. I can drag the highlights into a built-in outliner and organize and comment them there. I can drag relevant highlights into a built-in report outliner where I can write the corresponding section of the final report. I knew I wanted it. I thought others would too. I was wrong on that. Sigh! I guess I built it just for myself after all.