I think we need to organize behind āmove slow and fix thingsā.
A pattern Iām seeing in my job and my job search is that the tech industry is still under the illusion that āmove fast and break thingsā is right, even though we are surrounded by mountains of evidence to the contrary.
Somehow we need to break the chain.
I donāt think Iām alone in this.
A cursory web search shows support for this approach among the business crowd.
https://hbr.org/2019/12/why-move-fast-and-break-things-doesnt-work-anymore
Over the next few decades, agility will not come from speed; it will come from the ability to explore multiple domains at once and combine them into something that produces value. This means computer scientists working with cancer scientists, for example, to identify specific genetic markers that could lead to a cure. This change will be profound and we will need to rethink old notions about how we compete, collaborate, and bring new products to market. Here are three key shifts.
@requiem The assumption that "market forces" are the best guide for software (so no intentionally planned development is needed) is just so misguided.
The ideal outcome of capitalism are people like Elon Musk or Donald Trump: self-serving narcissists who don't even care about their own families.
Do we really want our software to be like them?
@requiem My best argument: Facebook - who coined the term - themselves abandoned "Move fast and break things" a decade ago:
> On May 2, 2014, Zuckerberg announced that the company would be changing its internal motto from "Move fast and break things" to "Move fast with stable infrastructure" [Wikipedia]
https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-on-facebooks-new-motto-2014-5
@requiem The fact that "move fast & break things" was ever pitched as a virtue, let alone a default, is a perfect example of the gold-rush-era of web development.
A time where you could run into the hills, fall on your face, and still hit gold - but the people that did thought the frantic scramble was somehow responsible for the success. Not that "the land full of gold is currently untapped so being first counts right now - but won't for long".
"my madness got me wins, *I* did that!" Nah.
@requiem Capitalism incentivizing short term growth over long term stability, companies not caring about the damage they cause, an insulation from consequences for the powerful, hasty trend-chasing with a fear of being too late to capitalize and tech bros buying too much into their own mythologizing
what a terrible combination
Narrator: They were not alone.
Even better. Move slow enough to do it right the first time so when you need to you can fix things.
@requiem can we say move steady instead?
Itās all relative of course, but you can move at a sustainably quick pace if you focus on the process and structure that supports it
So much could be accomplished if Wall Street emphasis on Growth over any other metric and quarterly earnings reports were valued less than merely staying in the black.
You're not. But we need to realise this is about marketing. "Fast and easy" is much easier to sell than "hard and painstaking". So we have to be better at selling, better at copywriting and marketing strategy, than the other team.
Unfortunately most people on our (?) team react really poorly to words like "selling", "copywriting" and "marketing". And they have no strategic sense whatsoever.
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