Optimizing for speed is worthwhile. Life is short; if you don’t work quickly enough, you will complete fewer projects, which leads to fewer opportunities for success. Meanwhile, working at a fast pace allows you to dive into projects quickly and gather feedback, which is crucial for the success of our projects.

When I think about speed I think about the whole process - researching, planning, designing, arguing, coding, testing, debugging, documenting etc.

It's also really hard to get better at having good ideas because you get such little feedback. It might take a year to build out a complex idea before finding out if it's good or not, which means you get maybe 40 attempts in your career.