[mfukar]

1. Relevant skills don't change. Your abilities to reason on problems are never becoming irrelevant.

2. New technologies are adopted, doesn't mean old ones quickly disappear. Sometimes not even slowly.

3. Area focus. If my area of expertise is networking, what do I care about VR? We can't be generalists any more than we could be 20 years ago.

4. If you feel like being a generalist, understanding & internalising (basic) principles is more important than being familiar with specific technologies

5. Critical, transversal thinking. You can weed out heaps of new technologies by understanding _how_ they fit in a system and the tradeoffs they require, before you have to become intimately familiar with them. Base your approach on tangible end-to-end measurements to understand how technologies might fit in a system, and after that you'll have to keep up with a lot less than the various FOTM