Two Excellent ways to deal with Technical Debt

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/via http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2018/03/21/it-flew-by/
So yeah, whenever we build anything, we incur tech-debt. That’s just the reality of the industry, and it’s not worth getting into. There have, literally, been volumes written about it.
All that said, the two stellar strategies are Post-Its and Kick The Can Down The Road.
Post-Its: Every time you do something that you know you need to fix later, you write it up on a post-it, and put it on the wall next to you
• If your wall gets too crowded, you have to actually start fixing stuff
• If the Post-It falls, and you don’t notice it, well, consider that Breakage. If it’s really important, it’ll show up again. If not, well, it doesn’t matter
Kick The Can Down The Road: Pretty much what it sounds like. Do the bare minimum of whatever you need to do to make this a problem for the future.
• If your startup fails, it doesn’t matter
• If you quit, it’s not your problem
• If you moved to a different job, it’s really not your problem
• If you got fired, its really not your problem
You too can use these amazing strategies! They are guaranteed to work! (•)
(•) For a given definition of “work” 😀

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