
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

So I went where I could grow.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
- It solves a problem that a lot of people have in their daily lives.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Just because you don’t know of any other better options doesn’t mean they don’t exist. There is other money. There are other jobs.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
A webpage can’t be approved until you know who will be routed to that page and what they’ll need to know and where the call to action will take them.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
That’s what you’re looking for when you’re young, when you think you know everything then suddenly realize you have no idea what you’re doing: a place where you can work as hard as you can to learn as much as you can from people who can make something great. So even if the experience kicks your ass, the force of that kick will propel you into a new
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You can get guidance and advice, you can choose a path by following someone else’s example, but you won’t really learn until you start walking down that path yourself and seeing where it takes you.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
take the customer journey myself, to touch every touchpoint.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
And the product manager is the producer—making sure everyone knows the melody, that nobody is out of tune and everyone is doing their part. They’re the only person who can see and hear how all the pieces are coming together, so they can tell when there’s too much bassoon or when a drum solo’s going on too long, when features get out of whack or peo
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rational argument for why anyone should buy a Nest Learning Thermostat—because regular thermostats waste energy and wasting energy is bad for you and bad for the planet.