My takeaway from talk is basically "go slower". He points out that history can be a good guide. In academic fields you need to get IRB approval for human subjects. A similar system might make sense for models applied to people, for example the system used for sentencing prisoners probably should have some kind of third party oversight.
It seems like the real issue is the information asymmetry. You can build hot garbage in five days but it takes the customer five months to figure it out, by which point they've lost all their data to malware. Meanwhile on day zero the carefully-designed application is $50 and the hot garbage is "FREE*", so which does the user choose without any other way to tell the difference?
I get what they are usually saying and I generally agree. For example DHH has a ton of material on how to do things differently, or more sane if you so will. It is just, now that I am convinced then what? I can try and incorporate some things, but it doesn't change much overall. So while I can appreciate the "gospel", there needs to be a path for people who are already on board. Maybe a organization, methodology, role or even a damn certificate. Because there are thousands of people learning "growth hacking", "agile" or whatever every day.
