The True Meaning of Technical Debt 💸
"Know your enemy, know yourself, and in a hundred battles you will never be defeated"
Last week I came across this old article by Rands about managementese.
It’s a great essay on communication — and how, in the workplace, communication naturally optimizes for clarity and speed.
Weird phrases that we often mock, such as "action item", or "circling back", are actually highly efficient vectors of meaning. They fit non trivial concepts in ver…