A house with little things strewn all over isn't a great sight.

The most important thing to do right now might be on the other side of the room. And in getting there, we have to step over the things on the floor. 

And the longer we delay tidying up, the longer we have to do this whenever we want to get across the room.

If we do it for long enough, this becomes normal and we learn to live with the mess.

In product development, that little mess is all the little buggy experiences that never get prioritised because in and of themselves, they aren't important compared to the bigger goals that we chase.

But there's no denying that we're living in a mess.