Wisdom

Build slow and methodical, not 'fix it in the first patch'

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if you go into something with a slow, sort of methodical, built, you know, approach to building it, you don't you don't have to fall victim to a lot of that stuff.

Episode 129: Turkish Punk (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:12:51 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

After 15 years of VC-driven 'move fast and break things', the industry has gotten used to constant outages. A slow, methodical approach to building avoids falling victim to most of that.

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    when you got a day job and a bunch of different products to manage, you feel like you do a terrible job at all of it. And I think in the only way that you manage those expectations for yourself and your product, is by going slow, and taking time and doing very incremental

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