Technical debt is your friend until it isn't

And I try to remind the engineers, we would be so lucky to have tech debt because that means people are using the product.

But what we didn't need at launch was a distributed scheduler with coworkers and RabbitMQ. We just didn't need it because we had no users.

I actually think as a startup your job is to take on technical debt because that is how you operate faster than a bigger company.

For the longest time, Simon's really good at don't do premature optimization, so for the longest time, we Notion runs on one instance of Postgres database... So there's a doomsday clock that when we're going to truly run out of this space to store everything in Notion and Notion got a complete shutdown.

You have a technical debt runway. Once you run out, once you've taken on too much debt... you'll get in trouble.