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While I admire the author's attempt to bring structural clarity to a broad concept, greater clarity can perhaps be found by broadening it further still. Anyone
by jmkd 8y ago
While I admire the author's attempt to bring structural clarity to a broad concept, greater clarity can perhaps be found by broadening it further still.
Anyone who has refurbished a house will live and breathe examples of technical debt embedded in the workmanship, and the material / design choices around them.
As you discover past shortcuts made by hurried builders, asbestos components or electrical cabling no longer safe to use, you quickly realise that you have to address these issues in a way that doesn't come back to bite you down the line.
As a regular homeowner you are transformed into the perfect dogfooder for House 2.0, and this perspective should inform your (day job) approach to technical debt as it is traditionally defined.
- devonkim 8y agoI read of a clock tower several hundred years old that was in need of repair / replacement and construction workers realized to match the wood the trees they’d need were thousands of miles away and extremely rare. When they started asking around to see if they could source it with substitutes the groundskeeper said that the tree they needed seemed familiar and brought them to an orchard a few hundred yards away. For generations, a small orchard was maintained from the time the project was started for the day when the timber would need to be replaced. We don’t do this normally in most homes around the world, but families of multi-generational wealth seem to be able to do something similar with their homes because they both have means and will to build an estate that lasts centuries.