I suffered from the whole "not being up to date all the time" syndrome. I would always read, I'd read everything about everything. New technologies, frameworks,

I suffered from the whole "not being up to date all the time" syndrome. I would always read, I'd read everything about everything. New technologies, frameworks, startups, ideas, languages, everything. I'd read so much, I'd never actually code because I felt "out of the loop". Find a problem no matter how trivial it is, turn that problem into a solution in the form of software. Use the tools that would be best for the project. It doesn't matter how recent the tool is, how many people use it, how cool it is. What matters is that it gets the job done. I've finally settled on an idea and buckled down and got to work.