[hirundo]

To the extent that you're anti-fragile the sign flips and emotional labor leaves behind a credit balance. To a candle flame the wind is an existential threat but if you're a bonfire the wind can make you an inferno.

That's Nassim Taleb's spin. Nietzsche would say that which does not kill you makes you stronger. Neither of which is very helpful if it does blow out your candle.

Technical debt can't so easily be converted to credit with an attitude adjustment, breaking the metaphor.