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> Today you have this "go fast, break things" mentality Not in most of the big tech companies, even in the bay area. It's amazing that the bay area companies h

• CobrastanJorji 2y ago
  That's because "go fast and break things" was a stupid plan for children and criminals. It worked sometimes in the same way that some people who move to LA to become A-list actors succeed, but that doesn't make it a good plan. Slow IS faster. But slow can also be slow; you can go slow because you're doing it right, or you can go slow because you're dragging cinderblocks behind you for no reason. The trick is telling those two things apart.
  • pc86 2y ago
    "Go fast and break things" is a good thing if you're working on stuff nobody needs, or stuff that doesn't make a lot of money. Breaking a social network that 2,000 people use and makes no revenue is fine as long as you learned something from it that makes it easier to get that 2,001st user or first dollar. Breaking a hospital's IT network could kill someone and should have consequences. Breaking amazon.com costs tens or hundreds of millions of dollars and should have consequences. GFBT's usefulness, like most things, changes based on the scale at which you apply it. Calling it stupid is reductive at best.
    • michaelgburton 2y ago
      And yet it all too often gets applied in places where it is objectively stupid.