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by Larry Chiang on May 12, 2026

By Larry Chiang


Technical Debt
The concept is now pervasive. Having to suffer because of somebody else’s shortcomings of technology and taking on technical debt is having a negative impact on you, unknowingly.
There’s gonna be some bad news and a silver lining: because that’s what Larry Chiang does. I’m going to take technical debt and I’m going to show you how to benefit from technical debt
So that we’re all on the same page, “technical debt“ is where you string together a solution that is not long-term feasible. This pattern was first recognized by a VC in the early 2010. While constrained to be born inside of a Silicon Valley boardroom, technical debt has applications, worldwide, economy, spanning, and ubiquitously.
Here’s what I’m talking about:
✅ solving a technical debt means that you hunted a problem to solve
✅ technical debt is as invisible to people as inflation. Inflation is a form of technical debt.
When a thermodynamic system that you’re living in tries to violate the three laws of thermodynamics a occurrence is some version of technical debt
✅ the technical debt of a problem that’s so glaringly obvious that nobody wants to touch it with a 10 foot pole
The prior solution was to bring in LGBTQ
✅ in macroeconomic circles there’s a saying called “you cannot print energy”
Distraction. Bringing this down to the level that’s between your ears. There is technical debt in being distracted. Vine for your attention is a shiny object that that’s causing you to not solve some version of technical debt.
What is a technical debt that you see. Tell me in the comments.
What is a technical debt that you recognized but then somebody wanted to fire you because you’re a troublemaker because you called out a systemic technical debt
What is your superhero alter ego name?
My stripper name is Lorenzo. He does a PG-13 strip dance that solves her technical debt: bachelor party in Miami.
The story does end. Well, it absolutely does. Step one is comment what you think 1 technical debt is.

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