Links: People Edition

1. Are Steve Job's shoes too big to fill? Perhaps not for Tim Cook, who is rebuilding Apple in his image.

What's clear is that Cook is behaving like his own man, putting his stamp on Apple -- including some moves that will court controversy with the Apple faithful, watchful as they are for the slightest deviation from their perception of the Steve Jobs playbook. Cook consistently pays homage to the legacy of Jobs, but he doesn't apologize for charting a new course. He seems, at the end of the day, to be honoring one of Jobs' dying requests: that Apple's management not ask "What would Steve do?" and instead do what's best for Apple.

2. Walter Issacson on Benjamin Franklin (video)