# Hampton Lintorn Catlin: Only Add Complexity When Necessary

EP-068 | September 28, 2020 | 01:09:24




Robby speaks with Hampton Lintorn Catlin, CEO at Veue. They discuss how to reframe technical updates as investments and lessons learned from collaborating in open source. Hampton also shares how why he avoids the phrase "technical debt", along with his first-hand story of how he helped invent the open-source projects Haml and Sass.





## Show Notes

Robby speaks with Hampton Lintorn Catlin, CEO at Veue. They discuss how to reframe technical updates as investments and lessons learned from collaborating in open source. Hampton also shares how why he avoids the phrase "technical debt", along with his first-hand story of how he helped invent the open-source projects Haml and Sass.

## Helpful Links

[Hampton on Twitter](https://twitter.com/hcatlin)

[Hampton's website](http://www.hamptoncatlin.com/)

[Veue](https://veuelive.com/)

[Hampton's Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Catlin)

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