Cameron Russell

has the music stopped? prev @cornell

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

Stg nothing ruins the perceived quality of a product more than some ai generated marketing materials … well, maybe something, but that’s definitely high on the list.

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

@DrKnowItAll16 @mehul @maticrobots people also forget this is the worst it’ll ever be … excited for the future!!

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

@brookeleblanc Bullish on Corgi and doing insurance.

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

the smartphone unlocked a whole new way of interacting with the world 19 years ago … it’s due time for the next evolution in human-technology interaction

[Matic Robots @maticrobots]

Introducing Cues: Voice & Gesture control for Matic

We raised $115M and spent 9 years to make the world’s first intuitive home robot

Say you spilled coffee: Point to the spill and say, "Hey Matic, clean this" and it will hear, see, locate in 3D, and go clean on its own.

Matic comes with a lot of features:

1. Say "Hey Matic" - it locates your voice, turns, and looks at you
2. Say "Hey Matic, follow me" and start walking. Matic will follow behind
3. Say "Hey Matic, go clean the living room". Since it knows your house map, it navigates and just does it

It's so easy, a 5 year old and an 80 year old can use it and it understands 75 different languages.

Matic has 8x the airflow, specialised cleaning algorithms for rugs, corners, toekicks, mopping, etc and cleans better than any other robot vacuum.
Also keeps improving with software updates.

13,000 families use and love Matic.
WIRED magazine gave it a 10/10 (the only hardware to receive this rating in a decade)

Buy yours at https://t.co/nLfY5pchxB and if you don't love it after 6 months, we'll give you a full refund.

To celebrate our launch, we're cleaning 300 homes with Matic in San Francisco and New York City.

Comment "Matic" below, we'll send you the link to sign up and come to your doorstep to clean your home with Matic.

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

@maticrobots don’t cry over spilt milk (as of tomorrow)

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

If you’re trying to prevent ux leakage — i.e., where people start sth. and exit early — in user flows, is it really that bad to remove their ability to prematurely end?

If you want most users to actually complete sth., this is probably the only way to go.

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

not sure if it’s encouraging or depressing that propinquity dictates most aspects of our social lives

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

brainstorming → refining → building → releasing

… → validating

always tempting to skip that last step when the initial brainstorming yielded many “great” ideas

but if you never check your work, might not be great on second thought

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

People realize that great UX is different than great UI, right?

It’s giving C/C++ on a resume vibes

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

MVPs should be uncomfortably feature lacking

you’re validating ideas, not Michelangelo

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

if the target audience of your product is everyone, i fear you’ve made a massive blunder

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

Automated code reviews are a great way to stat pad PRs (not in a good way)

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

the current frontiers of scientific discovery are investigations into scale, both macro and micro (e.g., astronomy, biology)

would bet on advancements in the microworld first

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

the cumulative cost of ignoring the peak & end rule is significant

when you’re composing the music, just add a crescendo and end with fortissimo

often it’s pretty straightforward

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

@RoshanJMehta yagni

there’s a cost to designing code s.t. new features are easy to add, esp. when those new features never arrive due to changing reqs

could’ve gotten away with a simpler design in the first place (see pt. 2)

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

incoming: the paradigm shift

[Matic Robots @maticrobots]

Uh oh … all signs point to 8/13

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

Doesn’t make sense to solve problems that wouldn’t exist if another (reasonably sized) problem was solved first.

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

Disruption begets resistance … i.e., if you’re actually making waves, you will have critics

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

Need a case study on the economic impact of poor sleep quality on a single company … does it make sense (from a pure $ perspective) for companies to fully subsidize @eightsleep for employees?

Willingness to tackle hard problems is certainly higher after great night’s sleep …

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

Half my time running is spent thinking of a strava caption, only for it to show up as “Morning Run” :/

[Cameron Russell @camfruss]

sure, loyalty and obedience have different meanings, but … i now assume loyalty implies some level of obedience, esp, since 45 47

ick