Tony Fadell has more receipts for this philosophy than anyone alive.
The iPod launched with one function: play music. No FM radio, no voice recorder, no wireless sync. Apple’s board wanted all of it. Jobs and Fadell killed every single one. The iPod sold 100 million units in six years.
The Nest Thermostat shipped with a display that only showed the temperature. Honeywell’s competing thermostats had 12 buttons and 6 menu screens. Nest had a single rotating dial. Google bought the company for $3.2B.
“If you can’t explain why it matters, it doesn’t ship” sounds like a platitude until you realize what it actually requires. It requires a PM to walk into a room where an engineer spent three weeks building something and say “this adds complexity without solving the problem, we’re cutting it.” That conversation destroys most PMs. They default to shipping everything because saying yes is free and saying no costs political capital.
The reason most products feel bloated is because saying yes is the path of least resistance. Nobody gets fired for adding a feature. People get fired for killing one that a VP wanted.
Fadell’s Nest rule forces the opposite incentive structure. The burden of proof sits on the feature, not on the person cutting it. That one inversion changes everything about how a team prioritizes.
Most PMs treat the roadmap like a to-do list. The best PMs treat it like a murder board. Every item is guilty until proven innocent.
That’s the actual job.
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@rikrenard@QuantifiedRob I already have an Apple Watch. Yet, I did like the tracking visuals much more on the Whoop. I saw that they now also started with embedded content from Huberman etc., which is also a big plus IMO.
@JapjeetU @hubermanlab@SatchinPanda Stumbled into TRE because I had trouble sleeping, mostly. Doing it also caused a ripple effect (lost weight, less bloated during the day, …). So I guess longevity has been the goal, ultimately.
With wearable tech reaching research-grade accuracy and patients desiring more care at home, I won't be shocked to see many more move from in-patient to out-patient for procedures.
For a health service like Atrium, investing in outpatient services is interesting for many reasons:
🛌 freeing up hospital beds (sooner)
👍🏻 improving patient satisfactions
🪦 lower readmission and/or mortality rates
⬇️ lower costs all together