Pruning the Stack: On Decluttering and Depth
In software engineering, leaving broken, unused code in a repository with the promise to "fix it later" is a guaranteed way to pile up technical debt. It never gets fixed. It just sits there, leaking memory and creating clutter.
I realized I was running the same bad architecture in my physical life. Keeping broken or old items for a hypothetical future use that never happens. They don't just occupy physical square footage in my house; they hog active cache in my mind. I have started removing them.
The same rule applies to my professional landscape. Every day, a dozen new tech frameworks pop up. I used to have the urge to learn them all, driven by professional FOMO. But most of it is just bloatware—noise that adds zero value to my actual architecture. I am now filtering it out, ignoring the hype, and focusing strictly on what is useful.
For years, I was obsessed with the idea of being "T-shaped" or "comb-shaped"—constantly expanding my horizontal breadth to know a bit of everything. But in that horizontal chase, I forgot to invest in what truly matters: the depth of the vertical pillars.
It is time to prune the unused dependencies, clear the mental cache, and focus on deep, core strength.