Contents (summary)<p>- Backstory<p>- Framing pigeonholes Responsibility.<p>- Software debt packages risk. We need better mental models of that risk.<p><pre><code> - Software debt risk perception is muddied by personal bias.
- Software debt is rooted in complexity. We abhor complexity.
- Software debt is inevitable.
- Software debt always compounds.
- Software debt is layered.
- Software debt is networked.
- Software debt is like a complex opaque financial derivative.
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- 1,000 words in 1 picture: xkcd summarizes it best.<p>- Stories of Debt and Destruction