Prioritize tech debt as if time and money matters. Each company running IT systems, including the flashy machine learning ones being built today, faces this dilemma at some point in their lifetime. The dilemma is usually: there is nobody left who understands a specific system, or it no longer builds, or making changes takes more and more time, or that one can’t build anything new without spending weeks on various upgrades first.

What are you not doing, not seeing or are too afraid of looking at? I am still not great in looking at these shadows. Is my team only happily stomping ahead? Or is it moving forward at the right pace, reflecting on the legacy it leaves behind? It is as important for a team as it is for the society.