Issue no. 006 - Why do we continue to force engineering teams to make short-term bets when often long-term goals are more strategically important and better?
Every time we’ve ever tried to rush a shipment, we’ve paid it 2-3x later in debt which comes to roost within a year. I’ve wasted so much time in trying to move fast that I now know from experience that the trade off is by default a bad one.
There is a time and a place for short term and long term thinking. If it is all long term, then it's like the promise of an afterlife.
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Every time we’ve ever tried to rush a shipment, we’ve paid it 2-3x later in debt which comes to roost within a year. I’ve wasted so much time in trying to move fast that I now know from experience that the trade off is by default a bad one.