> We should stop calling it "technical debt". That word suggests a clean account that can be paid off from time to time. Not all debt comes with terms that al

> We should stop calling it "technical debt". That word suggests a clean account that can be paid off from time to time. Not all debt comes with terms that allow it to be paid off "from time to time". Most personal debt does, but the debt that corporations deal with often has very strict, inflexible payment terms.