At one point I was buying/trying a lot of new stuff, shiny new hardware, gadgets, software, technologies, frameworks, etc. But now I don't care about learning/c

At one point I was buying/trying a lot of new stuff, shiny new hardware, gadgets, software, technologies, frameworks, etc. But now I don't care about learning/collecting new tools anymore unless I have a really good reason to do it. For me, creativity seems to spur from mixing and matching a minimal amount of basic elements. Creativity is very close to mastering a computer programming language. In general, you only need to command a paintbrush well to compose great paintings. You only need to know 30 keywords to make amazing programs. It's better to make use of general purpose tools really well to my specific needs than to employ a whole bunch of specialized tools. Having specialized tools is the answer only when I need to copy and mass produce something. One of the trends I have seen lately is some people have the tendency to branch out to make new gadgets and teach very specialized tools nowadays without merit. For example, the amount of javascript frameworks is absolutely mind-blowing, there seems to be a new javascript way to achieve the same damn result every minute. Someone recently bought me a sous-vide cooking device which both before and after having it, I still have a really hard time justifying having it in my home: What couldn't I do without it and with just a thermometer? I cook sous-vide exactly 0 times before I got it, and do it 3 times in 6 months since I had it. When I do it, I could as well enjoy and watch the thermometer instead of having download an app to my phone that I use once every 2 months to watch the temperature for me. It's not just in tech -- I understand they need to sell shit. Even in education, there are courses of "data science in X" or "X statistics" offered at every university for every field. One of my friends (who is doing a PhD) recently asked me to help with one of her assignments for her course. Basically, it was just two hours of boring shit teaching her to use graphs with various examples in her field X, I just jumped in and helped with what I knew, which has nothing to do with her field X. Why can't it be just a general-purpose data science or statistics course? With this rate, sometime in the future, we'll have sous-vide device just for 20-year-old blonde people who are married instead of just a thermometer that works for everyone. Rand's razor and all that.