Refactoring Know your enemy, know yourself, and in a hundred battles you will never be defeated
managementese.
It’s a great essay on communication and how, in the workplace, communication naturally optimizes for clarity and speed.
Weird phrases that we often mock, such as
action item , or
circling back , are actually highly efficient vectors of meaning. They fit non trivial concepts in very few words, and are understood by everybody.
One of such great metaphors is
Technical Debt.
Technical Debt is widely used and discussed within engineering teams. It’s a successful concept, I believe for a couple of reasons: