I wrote about a blog post about this: https://shubhamjain.co/2020/05/17/being-fast-matters https://shubhamjain.co/2020/05/17/being-fast-matters. Basically, as y

I wrote about a blog post about this: https://shubhamjain.co/2020/05/17/being-fast-matters https://shubhamjain.co/2020/05/17/being-fast-matters. Basically, as your get better, you also get faster. It's an unpopular opinion but great programmers can often perform wonderful in a short amount of time. Hell, it took Linus just a day to start using Git for managing Git[1]. It's a product of experience, thinking clearly, and being knowledgable about good tools for the job. People will retort: "But, but, but... what about pushing junk?" Well, if you've decent code review system how will that get merged? Pushing junk is often a less of a problem provided you've a good engineering culture. The best teams I worked with were just plain fast. The worst ones had plenty of engineers hiding behind meetings, reviews, and bike-shedding. [1]: https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/when-overachievers-self-doubt-the-birth-of-git-780503960577 https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/when-overachievers-sel...