Fast is better than slow

Don’t question why. Fast is better than slow. That’s just how it is. Your job is to take everything you can already do and do it faster. If you can embrace the idea that fast is intrinsically better than slow, you’re halfway home. If you can get an entire team of players to embrace that idea, you’re going to win a lot of games. All other things being equal, if I can get the ball from Point A to Point B with one touch, it is better than getting it there in two touches. Why? Because one touch is faster than two touches, and fast is better than slow. — Dan Blank, Soccer IQ About 10 years ago, I realized all the best programmers I had worked with had something in common: they were fast. By that I mean that they moved quickly: we’d discuss a problem and an hour or two later they’d already have a patch ready or a prototype to show off. It took me a while, but eventually I realized: they weren’t fast because they were great programmers, they were great programmers because they were fast.…