ā€¦In product development, everything is connected, and there are always tradeoffs and unintended consequences. Sometimes those tradeoffs are technical. Things can’t always be built because engineering decisions made long ago preclude certain new directions, or would lead to a lot of “tech debt,” which basically means a lot of stuff someone will inevitably have to go in and fix in order to do this new thing.

If only everyone understood what Leah Reich stated so delicately in this piece. Or, at least those who used then complained about built spaces.

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