Build (Lead Title): An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making 

Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making 

Everyone deserves a mentor.
An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making: For every career crisis, every fork in the road, you need someone to talk to. Someone who’s been there before, who knows exactly how wobbly and conflicted you feel, who can give it to you straight:

Here’s how to think about choosing a job.
Here’s how to be a better manager.
Here’s how to approach design.
Here’s how to start a company.
Here’s how to run it.

Tony Fadell learned all these lessons the hard way. He spent the first 10 years of his career in Silicon Valley failing spectacularly, and the next 20 building some of the most impactful devices in history – the iPod, iPhone, and Nest Learning Thermostat. He has enough stories and advice about leadership, design, startups, mentorship, decision making, devastating screwups, and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia.

So that’s what this book is. An advice encyclopedia. A mentor in a box.

But Tony’s doesn’t follow the standard Silicon Valley credo that you have to radically reinvent everything you do. His advice is unorthodox because it’s old school. Because it’s based on human nature, not gimmicks.

Tony keeps things simple: he just tells you what works. He gives you exactly what you need to make things worth making.

K. Quigley

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent guide to the world of building a product and business in any sector

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 May 2022

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This is a book (An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making) I was curious to read, and it did not disappoint at all.
As a product designer and advisor to start ups myself, there was so much truth in this, backed up by real stories from the coal face, explaining the good and the bad. All from one of the best in the business.
This is a book I will recommend to all my customers and mentees.
I tend to avoid books like this as they are usually written by people who have never ‘done it’ and regurgitate war stories or academic theory. But this one is written by a person who has been at the centre of development of some of the most iconic products of the last 50 years. It is a great insight into these processes.
But for me the real lessons are the what went wrong ones, and how to deal with challenge. The Nest smoke alarm flame being a perfect example.
All in all a great book that I will continue to dip into again and again.
Highly recommended to anyone with any interest in product development and growing a business.

Ian T.

(An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making) Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 May 2022

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(An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making) Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 May 2022

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(An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making) Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 June 2022

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bantam Press (10 June 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1787634116
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1787634114
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 490 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.3 x 3 x 23.4 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India

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