# 367 - The System Behind Your Tech Stack

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Podcast: [This Can't Be That Hard](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-can-t-be-that-hard-357105)
Published: 2026-05-05T06:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Tech tools and software are an easy thing to accumulate. Most of us add tools when we find them, promising ourselves we'll dive in "as soon as we have time. Before long, we've got a giant tech stack that just kind of happened. In this episode, I'm talking about the costs of "tech debt" - not just the financial expense, but the minutes, hours, even cumulative days that we all spend on workarounds, redos, and tweaks, all the while thinking, "I'm sure I had a tool that was supposed to do that!" ...

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