## Metadata * URL: [https://blog.southparkcommons.com/move-fast-or-die/](https://blog.southparkcommons.com/move-fast-or-die/) * Published Date: 2022-04-20 * Author: [[aditya-agarwal|Aditya Agarwal]] ## Highlights * We would celebrate and promote our most prolific engineers—not the ones who solved the hardest or most interesting problems. The organization pays a lot of attention to who you choose to recognize publicly. The relative values of quantity (aka speed) and quality are different for startups. You can shift what a team prioritizes with what you reward. * We invested a lot in our ability to recover quickly from failures. * This fear of pissing someone off is the single biggest reason why companies become SLOW. * You need to be OK having your change rolled back or switched up. * This aspect is critical—people in the company should feel zero entitlement in terms of having things always go their way. There is still a chain of command. There are still product managers. There are still CEOs. * My approach is to work as hard as I can and THEN to expect the same of everyone. * **Note**: But the rewards are not the same... so unless we are also considering differences in efficiency, you simply cannot ask others the same effort