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I think you have to be of a certain age to be in the "use boring technology" mindset. You either need to have been burned by new fads or been around long enough
by collyw 6y ago
I think you have to be of a certain age to be in the "use boring technology" mindset. You either need to have been burned by new fads or been around long enough to see everything as a rehash of something from decades ago.
- jameshart 6y agoInteresting. Would you, when interviewing a 30-something fresh out of Etsy, assume they were unlikely to be a 'boring technology' advocate? Because 'Choose Boring Technology' was originally an essay/talk given by Dan McKinley[1] describing the lessons he had learned at Etsy, which he left in 2014, approximately 12 years into his career. His strongest motivating example of a case where he 'chose boring technology' is a system his team built in 2010, when he would have been, I think, around 30. Is that 'a certain age'? [1] http://boringtechnology.club/ http://boringtechnology.club/
- collyw 6y ago12 years is a reasonably amount in terms of tech. It was probably around a similar time that I stopped chasing fads.