<story><title>Move Slow and Make Things</title><url>https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2021/04/01/move-slow-make-things/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>solarmist</author><text>I’m sad this is an April fools joke because a lot of the sentiment rings true and I love the slogan “move slow and make things.”&lt;p&gt;Artisans make beautiful things and software artisans make beautiful software, but it’s hard to do it and still be a viable business.&lt;p&gt;And artisans moving slowly isn’t arbitrary. They move slow on the things that matter. The things that shine when attention was paid to the details.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicbou</author><text>One of my favourite articles on the internet is &amp;quot;an app can be a home-cooked meal&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s something you can make for your own enjoyment, with no plans for scaling on monetisation.&lt;p&gt;I have started making this sort of software, and I thoroughly enjoy it. I target the platform I use, I solve the problems I have, and my only metric is pleasure.&lt;p&gt;I wish we all had more of such projects.</text></comment>
<story><title>Move Slow and Make Things</title><url>https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2021/04/01/move-slow-make-things/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>solarmist</author><text>I’m sad this is an April fools joke because a lot of the sentiment rings true and I love the slogan “move slow and make things.”&lt;p&gt;Artisans make beautiful things and software artisans make beautiful software, but it’s hard to do it and still be a viable business.&lt;p&gt;And artisans moving slowly isn’t arbitrary. They move slow on the things that matter. The things that shine when attention was paid to the details.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiofih</author><text>Same feeling here - instead of laughing I was disappointed when the second paragraph laid out the April fools joke.&lt;p&gt;I would love to see “small batch data science” where people actually understand the results. Black box recommendations never feel really right.</text></comment>