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I am looking forward to seeing the movie, but this article is strange. It seems to be grasping at straw in order to throw doubt on the "fail often, fail fast" (
by cicero 7y ago
I am looking forward to seeing the movie, but this article is strange. It seems to be grasping at straw in order to throw doubt on the "fail often, fail fast" (foff) philosophy. My take on foff is that it recognizes that the fear of failure can keep us from taking the risks needed for success. This seems orthogonal to concerns of privilege or the adverse effects of technology. I do think we in technology need to think about the adverse effects our work may produce, although I don't think the General Magic folks could have foreseen the smartphone issues we are dealing with now, no matter how hard they had tried.
- spamizbad 7y agoYeah, I feel like SV would be much better off if there were more General Magics and fewer "sensible", but less risky startup. But I'm a total sucker for ambitious hardware.
- dnautics 7y agoyeah exactly. The privileged already know that they can fail often and fail fast. The point of being vocal about it is to help the slightly less privileged also adopt that mentality (because, honestly, they'll probably be okay too), which theretofore was one of the unspoken ingredients of success for the privileged.