I feel that there’s something true and very important here, and (as the post acknowledges) it is described very imperfectly.
One analogy came to mind for me that seems so obvious that I wonder if you omitted it deliberately: a snare trap. These very literally work by removing any slack the victim manages to create.
I’m just not familiar with snare traps. A quick search doesn’t give me the sense that it’s a better analogy than entropy or technical debt. But maybe I’m just not gleaning its nature.
I feel that there’s something true and very important here, and (as the post acknowledges) it is described very imperfectly.
One analogy came to mind for me that seems so obvious that I wonder if you omitted it deliberately: a snare trap. These very literally work by removing any slack the victim manages to create.
I’m just not familiar with snare traps. A quick search doesn’t give me the sense that it’s a better analogy than entropy or technical debt. But maybe I’m just not gleaning its nature.
In any case, not an intentional omission.