#47 - Stop the steal!

It's everywhere.

This time-eating phenomenon is called tech debt.

I want to name it as thievery.

Do you want to remove $20 from monthly credit card charges? It took mere minutes to launch the subscription. It will take a working day's hours to wade through the despair bog of cancellation.

Do you wish to change an enterprise management system? It's simple. Just like a simultaneous organ transplant is simple.

Need a new car key made? Steel yourself for an afternoon at the car dealership while your car-puter gets reprogrammed.

Do you need to buy something? Whether online or in-person, to evade responding to the merchant's data collection questions (data resold elsewhere) or if one caves and answers all of the questions and signs up for texts and emails, it imposes on your time and impedes the actual transaction. Hours and hours of this over time.

We don't have moments to give when our moments are stolen and sold.

Going Deeper: a definition of tech debt

Truth.

It isn't just you whose time leaks into tech debt.? It also fills behind-the-scenes work for tech professionals.

They write software patches to make legacy and current systems work.

They also create the programs to sift and sort the data demanded in the reports for us, the higher-ups, who want ever more robust business intelligence with really popping graphics.

And so, a chief function of AI will be sorting through the data fragments and misconnects in the data lakes, consuming vast amounts of energy to dig us out of the tech debt we keep creating.

The KISS acronym never felt more wise than it does today.

More KISSes everywhere and in all things! ??

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