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I'm not old, 32, but this problem worries me. My plan for addressing the "Must keep up with latest tech" problem is to CREATE the latest technology. My hope if
by mempko 10y ago
I'm not old, 32, but this problem worries me. My plan for addressing the "Must keep up with latest tech" problem is to CREATE the latest technology. My hope if I create enough of it that in 15 years I'll be that old guy who created tech X or Y and nobody is going to bother wondering if I can keep up. Will this plan work? Who knows.
Best way to predict the future is create it right?
- buzzybee 10y ago31.5 here and I have definitely caught on to the "create the future" tack, although I'm taking a mixed approach that isn't purely technology-driven, but more generally "change agent" - so, entrepreneurial, managerial, design, technology, community leadership, any opportunity I spot. I see it as all one rolling snowball that I can find ways to merge together as I push it upwards.
- duderific 10y agoWhat happens when the technology you created becomes "last year's" technology? Then you have to continually create the latest tech, which is probably even more exhausting than simply keeping up with the latest.
- mypalmike 10y agoI think for every story you hear about a guy in his 50s who only knows how to program COBOL on mainframes, there are 10 of us ("us" - well, I'm 45) who are learning new, valuable technologies all the time.
- gaius 10y agoMy plan for addressing the "Must keep up with latest tech" problem is to CREATE the latest technology This kind of thinking is why there are a hundred Javascript frameworks and more being made all the time, thus creating the problem you're trying to solve by joining in...