The Cost of the Move-Fast-Break-Things Mentality 7 | 17

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Radical Canner podcast. I'm Kim Scott. And I'm Jason Rozoff, and today we're going to be discussing a philosophy that's become almost mythical in tech circles, and that we're watching play out in real time in the US government. This philosophy is often referred to as the move fast and break things.

approach to work and when this approach is effective and when it might lead us astray. So with that, let's get going. I have to say, Jason, that one of my favorite photos, and we will put it in the show notes, comes from a friend of mine who used to work at Facebook. which uh which is the company that coined this move fast and break things and the news sign was slow down and fix your shit uh uh so move fast and break things is uh in my book a sort of obnoxiously aggressive uh however I will say there is at Google we called it launch and iterate Yeah.

And and that seems to me to be a better way to say what the the good part of this, which is that if you're so afraid of never making a mistake, you can't innovate, you can't fix things. It's sort of the ethos behind whoops a daisy. uh which is publicly saying, oh, I m I messed that one up and uh and I'm I'm gonna do better uh next time. I mean another way to say the good part of this is something that is on on the bottom of a friend of mine's her every email says make new mistakes. Uh so so I think that it it needs to be okay um to make a mistake.

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