“We 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.” ThinkingTryingTodayTomorrowStonesGraduatesUsersStepping StonesHardware Author:Hosain Rahman
“It has to go to the level of emotional connection, where you feel without it you're lost.” FeelsLostLevelsEmotionalConnectionsHardwareEmotional Connection Author:Hosain Rahman
“You 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.” TryingHelpingAsksSmarterVersusHardwareThesis Author:Hosain Rahman
“No one is going to tell you what to build. If they did, then they should do it, not you.” IfsShouldHardware Author:Hosain Rahman
“You have to have the definition of what you're trying to do across the system.” TryingDefinitionsHardware Author:Hosain Rahman
“You gotta think about your category, your replacement cycle, usage, how these things come together and the dynamics are different.” ThinkingDifferentTogetherCyclesCategoriesDynamicsUsageReplacementsHardware Author:Hosain Rahman
“I 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.” TogetherForceTeamDesignMaterialsCommunicationEngineeringManufacturingHardwareUpdatesSensors Author:Hosain Rahman
“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.” BuildingShotsGatesSoftwareMobileHardware Author:Hosain Rahman