Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore
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#2Original, and full article at https://hbr.org/2019/12/why-move-fast-and-break-things-doesn...
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#3Did it ever work?
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#44. Regulators and the public have both grown increasingly alert for 'fake it til you make it' gambits. Regulators are more likely to intervene when companies create a public hazard (eg. Theranos, Uber's self driving program) or skirt legality with their business models (Uber, again, hmm.) The public is more likely to cynically exploit loss-leader behaviour and then jump ship once the company tries to turn a profit.
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#5Sadly 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.
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#6My answer would be: as the things are so broken, that I sometimes wonder how anything still works. Flawed cpus, memory, motherboards, operating systems, hardware, not to even go into userspace/web software full of lasigna frameworks that are buggy as hell even on then own and once you put all that into gulash called modern software... Its a small miracle on its own.
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#7My answer would be: as the things are so broken, that I sometimes wonder how anything still works. Flawed cpus, memory, motherboards, operating systems, hardware, not to even go into userspace/web software full of lasigna frameworks that are buggy as hell even on then own and once you put all that into gulash called modern software... Its a small miracle on its own.
the saving grace is probably the fact that our hardware is pretty well designed and so are the core components of our operating systems
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#8Did it ever work?
Ask Mark Zuckerberg, Travis Kalanick or Brian Chesky.
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#9Did it ever work?
It worked for the 5% survivors.
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#10Sadly 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 reaso…
They moved fast and broke society and the internet