827: Career Development with Topher Martini

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Scott and Wes talk with Topher Martini, a former Engineering Program Manager at Apple, about his extensive experience over two decades in the tech industry. Topher shares his journey at Apple, from starting as an intern in 2001 to working on groundbreaking products like iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:40 What it was like working on the first iPhone 04:47 How Topher landed at Apple early in his career 08:40 How Apple’s culture has changed over time 11:03 What makes a great employee? 16:37 Tips for better communication 17:54 Are meetings a good means of communication? 20:05 What makes a bad employee? 22:21 What does it take to get hired at a company like Apple? 26:16 Brought to you by Sentry.io 26:55 The relationship between passion and career 29:08 Topher’s advice for growing in your career 31:50 What is a sabbatical? 33:36 Teaching tech to kids 35:49 Topher’s work on self-driving cars Aurora 39:33 AI’s impact on tech and the future 41:22 What can developers do to stand out and be relevant in a world of AI? 43:30 Topher’s thoughts on career development One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way Paul Copplestone 44:47 What is a light field camera? 46:47 Spatial media and Vision Pro 48:10 The nifty stuff in Topher’s background 49:53 Something wild that happened while Topher was at Apple 51:34 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs Sick Picks Topher: Bambu Lab P1S 3D Printer Bento 3D Shameless Plugs Topher: Topher’s YouTube Channel Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0	Welcome to
0:02.0	today we have tofer Martini on the show a former engineering program manager at Apple
0:07.5	Tofer started at Apple all the way back in a 2001
0:12.3	as a tester working on the Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, all the stuff, right, all the I stuff.
0:18.0	Tofers' career has taken him to wild places in 23 years, like spatial computing, self-driving cars, light field cameras, and even the original
0:27.6	iPhone.
0:28.6	So we've been wanting to have Tofar on the show for a long time and now that he's on sabbatical it seemed like the perfect time so
0:34.0	welcome to syntax Tofer.
0:36.0	Thank you very much so excited to be here and nice to make the connection with you
0:39.6	Wes as well.
0:40.6	Yeah yeah absolutely I know we're talking about career stuff here, but am I am I allowed to ask what working on the first iPhone was like? Can we can I go off plan already?
0:53.0	Sure, I mean, enjoy the ride.
0:55.2	You know, it's interesting.
0:56.0	I think we're a broad strokes pain like working at a company like Apple is,
1:00.4	you know, for a lot of people it's kind of a hallmark in their career the benchmark that they aspire to and having you know
1:05.5	work at Apple for over 15 years you know it's a truly unique experience and I think you know more so than the products it's really the teams that have shined.
1:13.2	And so working on amazing product like iPhone,
1:16.0	granted, I had a very small role
1:18.1	and as a tester in a very large product ecosystem,
1:21.0	but the ability to work with amazing teams is really kind of the
1:24.6	differentiator in seeing how amazing products are built.
1:27.8	You know, it's interesting in retrospect, you know, it was so exciting to deliver a product
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