> Have the courage to go slowly, especially when everyone else is telling you that you need to go fast and cut corners.

I've been struggling to figure out what "slower" would look like when working in industry. If everyone's working 2x faster, how do you slow down meaningfully without getting axed?

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bee_rider 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Produce something 3X as good, I guess, and have one of the handful of jobs where your boss can recognize that.

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hackable_sand 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Slow is smooth and smooth is fast

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AnimalMuppet 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Slow can be fast.

As I got older and more experienced, I didn't produce code faster. I just produced the right code. If you don't have to try five different things, and debug them along the way, you can be a lot faster without "going fast".

	▲	2ndorderthought 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I've seen people work very quickly to create vaporware. I've seen people spend a week to change 2 lines of code and save a release. I don't know how people who practice engineering haven't seen these types of things happen. I've even seen a guy spend most of his work hours as a mentor even though his title was something like senior engineer. If anyone fired him that company would tank so fast...

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Barrin92 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

provided you have the financial freedom to, don't apply to jobs where this mentality is rewarded.

After getting my CS degree I deliberately went into a sector where I suspected this kind of attitude doesn't exist (defense in my case) because already then I felt the whole web/startup culture had very little to do with software engineering.