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Daily Inspiration: "Move fast and make things!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

It's long been the key phrase of Silicon Valley - 'move fast and break things' - the entire thinking being that in the race to build a new market and dominate within it, speed is of the essence and that its ok to see a few things go wrong along the way. There's a lot of debate as to whether that is a worthwhile strategy or not, and I won't go into that here.

I've certainly used derivatives of the phrase around here before, suggesting it in the context of fast-moving trends and ideas - you should 'move fast and chase things!'

Or the idea that you should "move fast and fix things,' as an antidote to the whole 'move fast and break things' mantra.

Or that simply the idea of 'moving fast' will help your creativity engine.
But what if you simply move fast and do things? What if you simply set out to do something and get it done, rather than seeing it exist in a state of perpetual implementation and development? What if you started a project and simply finished it? What if you had momentum but didn't let it peter out - but saw an initiative through to completion? You can have an idea, but if you don't implement it, it's a failed idea.

And so that's what I did this weekend with the creation of a new Website for this Daily Inspiration series which can be found at https://daily.jimcarroll.com.

I moved fast and made a thing.

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2024/01/daily-inspiration-innovation-speed-move-fast-and-make-things/