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Sadly the author doesn't understand what iterating quickly means. It's not a means of achieving greater performance in a known area, but a means of finding some
by narnianal 7y ago
Sadly the author doesn't understand what iterating quickly means. It's not a means of achieving greater performance in a known area, but a means of finding something that works in an unknown space.
So the completely opposite argumentation would've worked. For the last 10+ years we spent iterating over several startups to find how to use this new technology of mobile and internet, and now that we have found most reasonable usecases we can slow down and optimize them.
On the other hand there are always areas we don't know much about, like in the areas of shared knowledge, in the niches. There of course quick iteration continues to be the way to go.
- Y-Bopinator 7y agoThey moved fast and broke society and the internet
- supersrdjan 7y agoI agree. If anything, tinkering and iterating is the best approach to deal with complexity, which the author says will emerge from the new technology.
- blondin 7y agooh yea... for next sprint, let's green-blue roll out the update for this new cancer treatment and a/b test it on some patients so we can iterate.
- ares28 7y ago>> a/b test it on some patients What do you think placebos in clinical trials are??
- ako 7y agonot on patients, but they probably do a lot of iterations and a/b tests on mice. Fail fast is great for medicine research, the sooner you know that something doesn't work, the sooner you can try a new recipie.
- netcan 7y agoWell put. Concise. I will quibble though on the "now we can slow down and optimize them" part. What's happening in practice is that those startups who "lucked" into successes playing the risky-but-many game of mobile & internet technology... those startups now focus on defending their "moats" and optimising their revenue streams.
- joshred 7y agoHey quibbler, you defend a castle (not a moat).
- netcan 7y agoIn the spirit of quibbling: Moat: from Medieval Latin mota: “a mound, hill, a hill on which a castle is built, castle, embankment, turf” In the spirit of mixed metaphors: </checkmate> business catchphrase for the 20s: stock your hill with crocodiles
- ben509 7y agoI was wondering what the heck dictionary you found that definition in, but then I realized you're conflating the etymology with the definition.
- jevgeni 7y agoNowhere in the article has the author claimed that. :/
- blondin 7y agototally agree. i don't know... maybe we are all getting linked to different articles.
- mkl 7y agoFrom the article: "Shift 2: From Rapid Iteration to Exploration" But rapid iteration is the most efficient means of exploration for many areas. Exploration is the reason many people use the "move fast and break things" rapid iteration strategy.
- jevgeni 7y agoYes, exactly my point. Thank you.
- variable11 7y agoSadly the commenter doesn't know what the rule of law means. You can't just move into an unsuspecting city, dump a few hundred e-scooters on the ground, and expect money. These e-scooter trash-mongers belong in prison for abandoning large quantities of junk on city streets. I would charge the founders with multiple environmental crimes if I were the local DA or a Federal prosecutor. Move fast and break the law?