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Digital ExistentialismBafflegab

Move Fast and Break Things

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What it means

A management philosophy in which the moving is done by founders and the breaking is done by everybody else.

What it actually means

We will cause harm and call it velocity.

How it is used in a sentence

"We're still very much a move fast and break things company."

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Digital Existentialism — Ideas that were briefly worth billions, explained by people who are briefly employed.

Bafflegab — The phrase means nothing. We are ridiculing it.


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