I think we can all agree that this year is going to be pretty ugly, both in the tech industry and the broader economy. With the Fed planning to hike interest rates repeatedly, the Chinese economy in a tailspin, and the VC bubble rapidly deflating, there seems to be little doubt that winter is coming. And it&#x27;s not all the VCs and other pundits on Twitter saying everything&#x27;s going to be OK that are going to suffer as a result.<p>None of the problems that we caught just a glimpse of during the financial crisis were really fixed - they were just patched over with some spit and duct tape. The interest on that technical debt will have to be paid sooner or later.