Rich Felker
I intentionally say "Move slow and fix things" as the rejection of "Move fast and break things", as opposed to the more popular "Move deliberately and fix things".
Because I want, very specifically, for *slow* to be seen as a virtue. Slow gives time for people whose entire life focus isn't what we're working on to react to changes, provide feedback that change is breaking things for them, participate in consensus process moving forward.
Rich Felker
See also this characterization of ambition and how it relates to my "slow is a virtue". https://kolektiva.social/@aredridel/113727802345542832
Rich Felker
@zimzat Yeah. That's why I believe the actual good work takes place outside of workplace environments.
Russell
@dalias This sounds similar to a coworker's phrase of "slow is smooth, smooth is fast". It was used to point out taking time to do things like maintenance and architecture aren't slowing us down but instead making it easier for us to go faster in the long run. Unfortunately it's very difficult to convince multiple layers of management, and sometimes other coworkers, to go 'slow'.
MostlyTato
@dalias
Setting a foundation is by its nature a slow and methodical process, and we all know how essential a good foundation is for building anything.
Too many things are done without doing the slow, boring, core necessities.
I've never really understood that.
If you get it right from the start, everything takes less effort and becomes orders of magnitude easier.
But I guess people want to zap to the interesting stuff.
I wonder how that is going...
Rich Felker
@krusynth I still prefer "slow" because a lot of people insist you can be "careful" fast, and you can't. A lot of the people influenced by whatever you're doing won't even see it until years later, much less have an opportunity to have their needs considered.
Bill H.
@dalias I use “carefully” for the same reason (and have stickers to match).
Rich Felker
@krusynth 🤣 😭
Bill H.
@dalias I mean, I work for gov, so by that logic “slow” doesn’t indicate to me that anyone is taken into account either. We do most things slow and poorly.
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