➔ Atlas Shrugged Part II Chapter 5: Account Overdrawn - Society's Technical Debt Comes Due
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This chapter is called “Account Overdrawn” and it’s the most brutally accurate title in the whole book. Everything that was borrowed, ignored, deferred, and patched over finally comes due. All at once.
If you work in tech, you already know this feeling. You’ve been shipping features for two years without touching the infrastructure. The tests are flaky. The monitoring is broken. The deployment pipeline barely works. Then one Tuesday morning, everything crashes at the same time, and everyone acts surprised. Nobody should be surprised. The account was overdrawn months ago.