The Problem With "Move Fast and Break Things" at Scale
“Move fast and break things” is a mantra built for a specific context: small team, early product, learning fast — figuring out whether you’re building the right thing at all — matters more than stability, the cost of a broken thing is recoverable. In that context, it makes real sense. Speed is the only asset a small team has that a large organization doesn’t. Breaking things, learning, and fixing quickly is genuinely the right tradeoff when the alternative is being slow and careful about something that might not matter at all in six months. ...