It turned out that building mobile software was a lot more like building hardware... where you had 1 shot and you had to get it right, right out of the gate.
Hosain RahmanYou gotta think about your category, your replacement cycle, usage, how these things come together and the dynamics are different.
Hosain RahmanYou have to take those concepts and prove them, a little bit like you do a PhD thesis.
Hosain RahmanYou sort of have to separate what are questions you can ask that are going to help make you smarter about your thesis versus... trying to get somebody to validate it for you.
Hosain RahmanEverything for us is a system. We don't think about it discretely as just as a piece of hardware, or discretely as an application... or discretely as a platform. We think about it across the whole thing.
Hosain RahmanWe start to try to live in tomorrow and the future, and start to think about what we build today as a stepping stone to graduate users.
Hosain RahmanThink about where does this stand in the experience continuum that you've been imagining, where the world's going to go.
Hosain RahmanIn the hardware world, you've got to take your time because your iteration cycles are much more deliberate.
Hosain RahmanI have a daily call thats 2.5 hrs with the entire team: from materials, sourcing, manufacturing, design, sensor, firmware... mechanical engineering - all together and they all have to sit through each other's updates... but then understand what those tradeoffs are and I sort of force that communication.
Hosain RahmanThe thinking needs to shift from being less about the actual things, to being about the individual user.
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