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"Move fast and break things" was one of the worst core principles and we should have nipped that one in the bud.
in reply to Random Geek

Isn’t that only for fighting though? I can’t imagine using this principle on anything else
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.

in reply to Random Geek

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.
in reply to Random Geek

It works okay for small personal projects, but never scales.
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”.

in reply to Random Geek

I bought these stickers for my laptop.

https://movepurposefully.threadless.com/designs/move-purposefully/accessories/sticker/white?size=3-inch

in reply to Random Geek

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/