| ▲ | coldtea 2 days ago |
| It's about trying and breaking things to find out what's working, instead of casually tip-toeing lest you break something, and wasting your time. |
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| ▲ | gnz11 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| or maybe just ask someone for help first before you go breaking stuff? |
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| ▲ | coldtea 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | The quote is for startup businesses, doing novel pivots, and shipping novel features. It's not for things where you can just ask some expert to tell you what works or decide for you. | | | |
| ▲ | lanyard-textile 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | That's the spirit of the idea: It is meant to free you of that requirement, with the understanding that you very well may break things. It is permission to trade inaccuracy for autonomy. | | |
| ▲ | danaris 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | The problem is, as is so often the case with our modern companies, the things that got broken were other people's things. The things that were gained were made theirs. In other words, privatized profits and socialized costs. Again. | | | |
| ▲ | gnz11 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah, I hear you...working with your team mates is for smooth-brained chumps. Not like us 100x engineers. |
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| ▲ | hackable_sand 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Reads like incompetence to me |
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| ▲ | ksd482 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Another way of looking at this is "getting early feedback" by failing fast. It's another way of doing things and not necessarily incompetence. | |
| ▲ | coldtea 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Maybe that's an incompetent read |
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