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Chasing technology is a huge mistake. Your end users, your clients, where the money comes from, could not care less if you are coding your website in Visual Basic (is that even possible?). Nope. They are after a solution to a problem. That is ALL they care about. Nothing else. Do not waste your time with this ever-repeating nonsense of chasing the shinny objects.

That doesn't mean you stop learning. It does mean you inject a slow low pass filter in your life and don't react to every little movement in technology. You can learn about them while realizing your end users don't care and, in general terms, these technologies have no material advantages in delivering what customers are after.

Engineers are not business people. Do no follow what someone with no business experience says because you'll find yourself jumping from tech to tech and no servicing your customers.




* If your client is non-technical, endeavor to somewhat describe the trade-off in using simpler technologies, if there are any that matter to them




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