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accelerating iteration only leads to better solutions faster if you approach the iteration methodically, with intention and goals. shitty first drafts are useful only insomuch as they force you to wrestle with what you actually want to say

this is a thing that comes up a lot in design innovation practices, where the goal is to iterate into a problem-solution pair: a misguided belief that since your first proposal is unlikely to be correct (usually true) it’s always most effective to accelerate iteration

and other times you do want to move fast, to create a velocity that pulls you through a learning process. a first draft, your own critical eye, peers, friends, a second round of edits, another attempt… “co-evolution of the problem and solution space” by way of interventions and stimuli

anyway the point here is it’s all well and good to be like “okay your first ten will be bad so just get to eleven as fast as possible” but the first ten are only bad and the eleventh good because *the work of making them* helps you figure shit out