Why Fail Fast

For building a product, every other piece of advice I've watched or read says to do things fast and fail fast, but it never really made sense to me. I mean, You're solving a really rooted and hard problem that is very tangible. It has the ability to change the way we live, I'm damn sure Satoshi Nakamoto wasn't thinking for a second about "failing fast" when he was working on Bitcoin. The work holds the ability to get lost in doing things right, not majoring in months and timing and waiting to fail fast so you can generate another idea to see how it'll work and get profit from that earlier and easier.

What's the point of the failing fast rule? I can understand the fast execution but If you try to see closely, it mostly applies to making social engaging technology happen fast and giving it to people - people will always like something if it gives them an instant dopamine hit. If it doesn't happen quickly, then they apply more psychological tricks into algorithms to make that happen, playing with the human brain and making unnecessary things become part of your life until you forget the real world.

Look at us today - how much time we spend scrolling for cheap dopamine hits that constantly make us feel FOMO if we don't open those apps frequently and see who's doing what in their life through screens. Let's assume what's the worst that would happen if you stop seeing other people's joys through screens? Nothing, right! It's that simple, no fancy terminology needed. You see people sitting in front of you during conversations with friends and frequently opening their social media, or when we're doing nothing, the chances of opening Instagram is 99%. You think this is just a coincidence? No, it's not. To make you do this, they have failed multiple times and kept iterating with your behavior and psychology. The moment you open those apps, you're proving their model is successful.

Things can be simple, not complicated and complex unless they're tricking your mind. All these things are free, and a few years ago I read somewhere that if you're using anything for free, then you're the product. Don't follow any rules blindly - just work at your own pace. Building important things and making them useful for people is pretty hard and it's takes time.