Business

Long ago, doing things the fast way instead of the right way was nicknamed “technical debt” in the field of software development. However, analogies have limits.

Good tools save time and free users from repetitive tasks, but only if they’re adopted (primarily) organically….

I suspect meetings at most American companies are full of jargon. While frustrating to newcomers, these terms and phrases typically have a fair amount of value. Shorthands for industry-specific concepts are useful, both in time savings and added precision.

In data science and engineering, technical skills are often the quickest way to early-career advancement – a new contributor who can write decent code is immediately an asset, in a way that a business-savvy developer with no coding ability is not…. I think that’s why technical people never learn how to run meetings.