Wherever it goes is my best position. Wherever it goes I am comfortable.
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.
The thinking needs to shift from being less about the actual things, to being about the individual user.
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.
We can dream a lot faster than what's possible.
You gotta think about your category, your replacement cycle, usage, how these things come together and the dynamics are different.
I think that 'system think' is a mindset.
Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.
I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.