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Borrowing Against Future Capacity to Pay for Current Delivery
Every time the CEO pushes for speed without seeing the structural cost, the team borrows against future capacity to pay for current delivery. That loan accrues three forms of interest: a system that gets harder to change, a team that gets more tired, and a margin that gets thinner. The CEO never signed a loan agreement, but the loan is on the books.
What your engineers actually had to do is Vacuum Effort dollars times how much more expensive today's architecture made the work. The gap is sync tax.
The Cost of Not Understanding the Technology You're Building On