BTW I know a lot of us tried to nip "move fast and break things" in the bud, but yeah venture capitalists and the code-crushing drink-up-attending techbros they loved weren't gonna budge on that.
The important part of “Make a mess, clean it up” is learning to clean it up—and even that is only a good idea in some contexts. MFABT is (too easily read as) “make a mess, leave it for someone else to clean up.”
AFAIK, Meta now just says “Move Fast”, which neither says the “good” things MFABT should mean (“sometimes progress requires hubris; code wins arguments”) nor does it add the necessary “and fix them”.
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I used to have a sticker that I think another townie made that said "Move slowly and fix things" but heck if I can find it again. Bill Hunt has a pretty cool one though https://billhunt.dev/move-carefully/
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in reply to Farah • • •@farah It was an early internal motto at Facebook, and widely emulated in the startup world.
Supposedly Facebook etc have moved on, but I still see it in the bones of most startups.
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in reply to Random Geek • • •The important part of “Make a mess, clean it up” is learning to clean it up—and even that is only a good idea in some contexts. MFABT is (too easily read as) “make a mess, leave it for someone else to clean up.”
https://www.folklore.org/Make_a_Mess%2C_Clean_it_Up!.html
AFAIK, Meta now just says “Move Fast”, which neither says the “good” things MFABT should mean (“sometimes progress requires hubris; code wins arguments”) nor does it add the necessary “and fix them”.
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