I no longer find Scott Hanselman's Ultimate
Developer Tool list inspiring. Instead, it's fatiguing. The pace
of change in the world of software is
relentless. We're so inundated with the Shiny and the New that
the very concepts themselves start to disintegrate, the words
repeated over and over and over until they devolve into a
meaningless stream of vowels and consonants. “Shiny” and “new”
become mundane, even commonplace. It's no longer unique for
something to be new, no longer interesting when something is shiny.
Eventually, you grow weary of the endless procession of shiny
new things.
The
Magpie Developer
Jeff
Atwood's rant on the
everchanging landscape of the Computer Industry (read the whole
thing—it's worth it) expands upon my
continuing rant against control panels.
But this, perhaps, is my argument in a nutshell:
I'm about to admit something odd, and perhaps career-threatening:
I'm sick of learning.
There, I said it, and I feel better.
Do Yourself a Favor and Stop
Learning
Read that as well.
It's just that at times, I'm running as
fast as I can just to stay in place.
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