There are two kinds of people. Those who like to fiddle around with technology per se, and those who use it as a means to an end. I used to be the first, now I

There are two kinds of people. Those who like to fiddle around with technology per se, and those who use it as a means to an end. I used to be the first, now I consider myself more the second. You could say I'm getting older, but I like to think I'm getting smarter. Hey--I enjoy hacking away more than ever. But if the means is getting in the way of the end, then I'm just really impatient anymore. It's like waiting for a slow computer, sort of. Or, better yet--having to figure out which slot of RAM in my desktop is having problems before I can do some development at an acceptable speed without tons of swapping. I can do this stuff. If I'm learning something from it, great--but it's still getting in the way of what I want to be doing. Just because technology gets in the way of doing work doesn't mean that work is not technical in nature. And, of course, there are plenty of valuable, useful endeavors out there that are not inherently technical in nature. Those are not somehow lessened simply they desire to focus less on the tool and more on the result.