
Adam Korga
Pen name of Tomasz Kapłoński; writer and systems analyst with ~20 years in IT, author of the IT Dictionary and the Fuckup Almanac series.
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Oct 7, 2026
what can we learn from failures? (feat. Adam Korga)
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Noah MayHOST
How do you explain the technical debt to a CEO who only cares really about quarterly results? And should CEOs be kind of featured and focused on more than just the technical side of things?

Adam KorgaGUEST
That's interesting that you asked about this because I even recently wrote a small text about technical debt.

Adam KorgaGUEST
If you take a credit to boost your business, it can be, so investment credit, it can be very good because that helps you scale your business, scale your business.
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Noah MayHOST
When people are working in a very high level job, when it's really mentally challenging for them should do people tend to focus more on the failures that they make in in the job place and more of the successes that they do and if they do how can they focus more on the successful things that they have accomplished rather than having to really focus and really look back at the failures that they did um in the beginning of their career
Why Systems Fail (And Why It's Usually Not the Technology) | Adam Korga
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4:38BlessedHOST
Where do systems only get understood? Why do systems only get understood after they break?

Adam KorgaGUEST
But generally, the thing is that, in my opinion, in the modern world, in social media, internet, pretty much everywhere, we are flooded with success stories.

Adam KorgaGUEST
But the problem with success, besides the fact that it's, of course, attractive, the problem is the fact that it is pretty much impossible to replicate.

Adam KorgaGUEST
Every story misses or omits a lot of factors like third time coincidence, lack some aspect, like somebody started a company in garage, omitting the fact that they had a garage and funding from the parent.

Adam KorgaGUEST
And so while the failures are fully repeatable, that they do not depend on lack or lack of the, it just happens.

Adam KorgaGUEST
And more importantly, the failure really illustrates or shows the boundaries of the problem.
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9:09BlessedHOST
So why do you think, you know, jargon is often a mask for confusion?