> For a few years I was the Silicon Valley Necromancer, attempting to reenergize failing businesses with new technology. Users don't care what technology stack

> For a few years I was the Silicon Valley Necromancer, attempting to reenergize failing businesses with new technology. Users don't care what technology stack you are running as long as you don't lose their data. They care about responsiveness, ease of use, new features that make them think you have their interests at heart, since it was a mostly free product. The underlying lesson of Chesterson's fence is especially poignant here: instead of commissioning a rewrite, investing in tools that would help your team make sense of the existing codebase so you could fix the technical challenges is a less risky strategy. It also allows JIT documentation of the codebase as you clean up technical debt.