| one possible way it to realize that it's all re-inventions of the same thing all the way down. Slack is just IRC with pretty icons. Reddit is usenet. Twitter is just AOL AIM away messages. Etc. One way that might work is to turn it into a game. Taking an example from your post, you say:
"Why do I need Jenkins and Chef when I can SSH and add scripts and cron jobs." So work backward and write/post about it. Starting with SSH, cron, and scripts, here's how you can recreate Jenkins and Chef. Along the way you'll help other folks who also missed the boat figure out what the new technologies also do as well as give you some fodder for interviews where you can say, I reimplemented from scratch Jenkins using basic technologies and that's how I would use XYZ in this situation. Or, maybe you could try to focus on jobs where the company is scaling and actually needs to look at whether Chef, Jenkins is the best idea or whether it can be replaced by more optimized technologies that are used to using and have been "battle-tested" to an n-th degree. Maybe that could help? |