Hi community, my name is Louis and I’m from London, England! insert audience cheer and corny TV gameshow music I’m looking forward to being part of this community and the new tech movement that Nothing could potentially deliver.
My interest in Nothing really comes from the same sort of reasons I originally joined the OnePlus community - my common love and interest in game changing tech at affordable prices, that was aiming to stand out from the ‘big dogs’. I imagine Nothing to produce great things in a similar fashion to how the OnePlus One grew on fans and enthusiasts alike, which is something I would absolutely want to be part of.
Without going down the cliche road of voting a mobile phone as the tech that dropped my jaw (albeit my Nokia 3510i did, thanks to a colour screen and GPS technology), I would have to say that my very first MP3 player really blew me away. Prior to this, I was walking around with my Sony Discman with Shockproof technology so my discs wouldn’t skip 🤣 and I had these huge wires coming out which would cause a trip hazard, plus just the extra weight and ability to only listen to the same 8-10 tracks before having to change the disc was a ball ache. Enter the MP3 player. Now, this was amazing to me as a young boy that I could download music online, have it in a digital format and via USB I could transfer it to a device that was no larger than a pencil! I suddenly had 100’s of tracks to listen to and shuffling, updating and changing music was great. Note here that I didn’t have an iPod until much later on as I couldn’t afford it, so I had to make do with a nonbranded MP3 player - I wasn’t cool at the time lol.
Regarding favourite movie quote, I could give many that link me to James Bond or Star Wars film, but my initial memory of a film that I watched over and over again was The Matrix! Without quoting some of the most famous lines from that film, one that still resonates with me today is from Agent Brown (one of the many Agents):
Perhaps we’re asking the wrong questions…
I think this quote is perfect in everyday life, in our personal lives and in our work. Solving solutions and getting to the end goal requires us always to ask questions, in order to produce something, so sometimes perhaps we are asking ourselves and our team the wrong questions?
I love all tech, but if I was to pick something that represented me as a spirit animal then it would have to be a coffee machine. I am a self proclaimed coffee snob ever since I did a training day at a local brewery, since then my knowledge and interest in coffee has grown substantially. Also it’s one of the first things I start my day with, I am sure many of you sit in the same boat as me here 😄
