I look at the world and peer into products and think, 'What's wrong with these products?'
“I look at the world and peer into products and think, 'What's wrong with these products?'”
— Tony Fadell · Peer
The World Motivation
I look at the world and peer into products and think, 'What's wrong with these products?'
“I look at the world and peer into products and think, 'What's wrong with these products?'”
— Tony Fadell · Peer
I look at the world and peer into products and think, 'What's wrong with these products?'
It wasn't until the Apple Macintosh that people understood what true hardware-software integration was about. It took one company to line it up: low-cost hardware, cool graphics, third-party products built on top of it, in an all-in-one attractive package that was accessible to consumer marketing.
Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say 'screw this.' They hate the products.
I knew there were all kinds of interesting things going on at Google, but now that I've seen them, my mind has been blown - in a great way. They have all these amazing projects and people that the world doesn't know anything about. I'm like a kid in a candy store - it's an idea factory.
One of the best parts of being a writer is getting to peer into other worlds - even if you aren't going to stay very long.
Mostly in high school, when peer pressure took its big hold on me, that's when I started getting into my faith, and that helped me out so much.
I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.
At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.
Peer pressure is just that: pressure.