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Depends also if you're going through 1-way or 2-way doors, like Bezos says. If you're facing a lot of irreversible 1-way decisions than slow is smooth and smooth is fast. If the doors are ergodic than the original applies.

same outcomes as "move slow and break stuff", but a lot more fun

hey man that's great

If you rephrase it as: "Test hypotheses quickly." It sounds a lot less stupid.

I think it’s not so much viewed as stupidity by critics as being problematic when the “things” that “break” are democracy, trust in institutions and information, etc.

The glibness of the statement is a perception problem. As a license for impunity, it is a big problem in perception and in reality. “Fix” instead of “break”, like someone said here, would be much nicer but would also lose the desired shock and counterintuitive value.

Hehe. It's exquisite to see some basic common sense knowleges can quickly succumb first to academic discussion and then be ridiculed with extreme scenarios. Welcome to Twitter

We learn by failing. We are literally unable to learn without failing. That is why you can't learn to draw by tracing. The faster you fail, the faster you learn. But if you have users, you can't break the product every day.