Tony Fadell

Couldn’t be happier or more humbled. #BUILD is a @nytimes Bestseller. I learned A LOT writing #Buildbook w/the best co-writer I could’ve ever dreamt of @dina323

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25 years ago today, we introduced the iPod. 1,000 songs in your pocket.

A small team. An unforgiving deadline. We had months to bring the hardware, software, and music experience together. Proud of what we built and that it means so much to people still today. A device that has been woven in many ways into our lives. People have filled their iPods with road trips, breakups, workouts, special occasions with family and friends.

How cool that the iPod has become part of culture and our stories. 25 years, it’s hard to believe! Celebrating the team that made it happen today 👏

@StevenLevy was there from the start @WIRED wired.com/story/im-still…

No one is going to care about the underlying AI model soon, especially for consumers. The models are already good enough for most of what people need. What consumers want is for AI to be useful, easy to access, and FREE or bundled into something they already pay for.

Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor described this shift in the figure below which is in their book The Innovator’s Solution. When a product isn’t good enough, performance wins. Once it is good enough, convenience and cost start to matter more.

The winning question may soon be less Whose model is best? and more Why would I pay separately for this?

Good to see @Apple finally making a foldable. And, of course, they made sure it was best in class before bringing it to market. The iPhone Duo is more than a new product, it marks a well-orchestrated handover, years in the making, from @tim_cook to @johnternus @Apple will have an order backlog for the Duo for many, many quarters to come since iPhone owners have been wanting something different for years to try. I’m excited to see what developers dream up and build for an entirely new iPhone form factor.

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Prepare for some wind and some hail, but don't worry about getting swept away: a mission driven "asshole" might tear apart your work, but they won't attack you personally. They won't call you names or fire you for disagreeing with them. That's the difference between a mission driven "asshole" and a controlling one. Controlling assholes won't listen. They'll never admit they screwed up. Neither will political assholes. They'll ignore obvious problems and deflect reasonable feedback, either because it's not helpful politically or because their ego can't take it. They don't protect the product or the customer or the team. They protect themselves.

- #BUILD Chapter 2.3 Assholes