One thing missing from the essay: If you hire people that are more interested in solving the problem, then they are the tech ... the problem goes away. Using

One thing missing from the essay: If you hire people that are more interested in solving the problem, then they are the tech ... the problem goes away. Using some 'fancy, risk new thing' has utterly no appeal to someone trying to do XYZ by a certain time with a certain quality. This is one of the biggest dissonances between Eng. and many business roles. I've personally gone through the 'perspective shift' over my career, and I don't want to look at my younger self as desperately naive, but really it looks that way from a business perspective. Even doing Engineering now, I generally could care less about the tech, and that makes you think very differently about it. I almost cringe the moment someone brings up something weird. The risk is of course being the 'crusty naysayer' but in most cases, it makes sense. New Tech is still in R&D, unless there is something very specifically and overwhelmingly advantageous to that tech with regards to your business, it's just a risk. To Zoom ... Mongo, Rust and Scala probably are not there yet in terms of the obvious advantages, whereas a new video codec might might meet the threshold of 'we have to look at this'.