| I agree and disagree here. Certainly not old enough to be able to input on the wisdom/experience aspect yet, but from what I have seen in my time in this industry, investing your time in what is current is a surefire way to get left behind. The technology that sticks over the years are the things other people would rather take shortcuts to use, or wrappers upon wrappers upon wrappers. With every abstraction away from the core computing libraries, you take a bigger risk and enter into a bigger gamble with your time. I certainly know I am keeping miles away from node and webassembly (although the latter is interesting), simply because I was under a guy who has focussed his efforts not on acquiring fancy knowledge, but rather using simple techniques to achieve complex results. Soon the very simple things I learned to appreciate, ended up being things I now use every single day to do stuff way more complicated than a person of my intellect should be able to accomplish. Anyways, this got kind of sidetracked on the way, but I have to work with colleagues who have cemented years of knowledge in archaic tech, that while current at the time, ended up fading away over the years. They still have knowledge and skills, but they let their experience shackle their thinking, and oftentimes come up with extremely complicated solutions for very simple problems. I think this is also the point in their lives where they got comfortable enough to think they don't need additional training, where I was very much taught that there is no limit to knowledge that can be acquired. |