I feel suckered, but I do like the idea of moving slow...
"slow is smooth and smooth is fast" is something that I'm working to internalize.
This is why I believe, at core, in 100% test coverage.
Move Slow and Make Things
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#12I’m sad this is an April fools joke because a lot of the sentiment rings true and I love the slogan “move slow and make things.” Artisans make beautiful things and software artisans make beautiful software, but it’s hard to do it and still be a viable business. And artisans moving slowly isn’t arbitrary. They move slow on the things that matter. The things that shine when attention was paid to the details.
Same feeling here - instead of laughing I was disappointed when the second paragraph laid out the April fools joke.
I would love to see “small batch data science” where people actually understand the results. Black box recommendations never feel really right.
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#14I’m sad this is an April fools joke because a lot of the sentiment rings true and I love the slogan “move slow and make things.” Artisans make beautiful things and software artisans make beautiful software, but it’s hard to do it and still be a viable business. And artisans moving slowly isn’t arbitrary. They move slow on the things that matter. The things that shine when attention was paid to the details.
The best jokes carry a message and use humour as a vessel, challenging preconceptions in a lighthearted way.
I chose to take this April’s fool that way.
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#15Disappointed this was an April fool's. I think I might use this slogan anyway.
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#16I know it’s an april fools joke. But I’ve recently “discovered” why this is nevertheless very true. If you move slow, you have a higher chance of meeting the right customer, of actually allowing your idea to grow and improve over time. Without being locked into it in one form or another. Moving slow allows you to work on it as a side project first. Which means no financial stress.
And then making things. To me this means no paper prototyping. Not selling people on your idea without having anything tangible. Some may call it smart. To me it feels like gambling with your believability / integrity. There are only so many times you can do this before people get tired of you and your stories / dreams / business ideas. Just make something, show it to people when it’s actually useful. And feel good about actually having made something people liked. Instead of selling something people liked and then suffer the feeling of non-stop pressure, constantly _not_ being where you’ve told others you are.
Happy april fools :)
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#17I’m sad this is an April fools joke because a lot of the sentiment rings true and I love the slogan “move slow and make things.” Artisans make beautiful things and software artisans make beautiful software, but it’s hard to do it and still be a viable business. And artisans moving slowly isn’t arbitrary. They move slow on the things that matter. The things that shine when attention was paid to the details.
Same feeling here - instead of laughing I was disappointed when the second paragraph laid out the April fools joke. I would love to see “small batch data science” where people actually understand the results. Black box recommendations never feel really right.
It's called statistics, to be fair.
In general, if your DS's can't explain the model then something has gone horribly wrong.
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#18This is good advice.
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#19I know it’s an april fools joke. But I’ve recently “discovered” why this is nevertheless very true. If you move slow, you have a higher chance of meeting the right customer, of actually allowing your idea to grow and improve over time. Without being locked into it in one form or another. Moving slow allows you to work on it as a side project first. Which means no financial stress. And then making things. To me this m…
I think even when moving slow, you can still work with prototypes and get feedback as long as you're open about it and you're not taking people's money.
For example, I have https://www.invisible-computers.com up as a website. You can read about the product and you can sign up to be notified. But I won't take a cent until I have a product ready to ship.
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#20They're on a roll for April fool's, this other one is the geekiest one I've seen in a while! https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2021/04/01/fault-in...