Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems « the jsomers.net blog

The top reasons I see people say that productivity doesn't matter (or is actually bad) fall into one of three buckets: Working on the right thing is more important than working quickly. Speed at X doesn't matter because you don't spend much time doing X, Thinking about productivity is bad and you should "live life"

The faster the experimentation cycles, the faster the learning, the more of an advantage you have over established people and companies.