πGood morning. Tim Cook just did something plenty of business leaders spend years avoiding, and yesterday's headlines carried the weight of it. There's a particular feeling that comes with watching someone hand over the keys to something they've spent decades running β the office starting to feel like someone else's, the calls that were always instinct becoming somebody else's judgement. September always arrives with a bit of back-to-business energy anyway, the last of summer slipping away and inboxes filling back up, but this year it landed with an extra jolt: a reminder that even the world's most valuable company faces the same question every small business owner eventually does β who's actually driving once you let go of the wheel? Here's what else moved the needle.

