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Wrong question. Do not challenge trends, challenge yourself. By introspection. List the proposed changes, and their date. Look at how many of them you agree wi
by 1996 8y ago
Wrong question. Do not challenge trends, challenge yourself. By introspection.
List the proposed changes, and their date. Look at how many of them you agree with, as a function of time. The proportion should stay approximately constant with time. If you like new things less and less, this is not just luddism, but getting old.
I try to apply that to myself - I am generally against cloud computing because of the greater costs, but pro devops because of the moderate costs increase and much greater flexibility.
Unfortunately, you seem to have already decided all these things were just trends, or fads, that should be challenged without looking like a luddite. This looks like rationalization to me.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoNice idea but makes no allowance for recent ideas being poorer than earlier ideas or that the good and bad might run in phases. If I look in the IoT niche I might easily conclude that terrible ideas and trends are the only ones on offer. Choosing which are aging changing one's perspective and which a good ideas changed for the worse for change's sake is a far more difficult problem.
- 1996 8y agoIf phases are a problem, compute the average on a larger time period. 5 years would go down to 2013, 10 to 2008 Then, unless you believe the world is becoming a worse and worse place, I do not see why 1998-2008 should be a golden age, while 2008-2018 would have poorer ideas in general. If anything, I believe in the opposite, as most of the mobile low hanging fruits are gone, and crypto is where the action is now,
- amanzi 8y agoThanks, and that's a good point. I haven't already decided these things are just trends - I just tried to pick some examples of 'trends' that often spark discussion here to give some context.