Post #1338434

2023-04-14 18:39 UTC

@mmasnick @nilay_patel The line I liked was "And literally, we launched this thing one day ago. We’re going to have to figure a lot of this stuff out." They spent some time putting this together and thinking about its marketing, processes, etc. so Substack Notes didn't just spring out of Best's head like Athena overnight without any time to FIGURE A LOT OF THIS STUFF OUT. My guess is that what they figured out was they were going to deliberately ignore it.

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@peterbutler@mas.to 2023-04-14 18:45

@darrelplant @mmasnick @nilay_patel I caught that too, and it was very telling. You should figure out the answer to that question *before* you launch

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@ErichV@towns.gay 2023-04-14 21:15

@darrelplant @mmasnick @nilay_patel “We’re out here for fawning attention not for critical appraisal!”

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@lmorchard@hackers.town 2023-04-15 16:37

@darrelplant @mmasnick Yeah, "move fast and break things" is a tenet of our industry that I really wish would die. But, I'm unclear how to kill it. The market & investors reward the folks who get out there first & early and externalize as much risk & cost as possible to everyone but themselves. There's little profit & hype in holding back until you get it right. (Well, I guess Apple can kind of get away with that for gadgets, but that's a different story)

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