The easy way to avoid hype cycles is to just ignore the thing being hyped for a few years. I don't know the exact value of a few; five should be enough to clear

The easy way to avoid hype cycles is to just ignore the thing being hyped for a few years. I don't know the exact value of a few; five should be enough to clearly tell whether a fad is a failure but you might miss too many new things that are actually novel that way.