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by erik_seaberg 945 days ago
I enjoy learning new things, but my bar for "is this actually better?" seems to be unconsciously higher than it used to be.
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Mine too. I suspect it's the classic explore/exploit dilemma. We've learned enough that every new hotness just doesn't seem that novel or worth the effort to learn given we already see a path to our goals using what we already know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration-exploitation_dilem...