It's more like "avoid learning novelties" than "avoid learning". Give technologies time to be proven, for their strengths and weaknesses to become known. Wrangl

It's more like "avoid learning novelties" than "avoid learning". Give technologies time to be proven, for their strengths and weaknesses to become known. Wrangling the cutting edge is its own set of skills. It is phrased a bit ambiguously for shock value, I think.