[jimbokun]

I'm 40-something now, and my fear is always not being allowed to bring in another technology (new or otherwise) that could help us, because my team mates aren't familiar with it.

At the same time, a lot of new technology is just "Oh, that's nice, but actually not much different or better than what I'm using now." Which is fine. I can skim through a couple of articles linked from Hacker News and get an idea of whether I should care or not.

I'm also more realistic about picking my battles. The Swift keynote demo was really cool! But realistically, it's just going into the queue of all the other "that would be fun to learn some day" technologies.

Overall, though, I am always thankful to be able to work in an industry where there are always new things to learn. I imagine I am in a very rare position relative to most of the human beings who ever lived, being able to earn a good living while learning new things every day. The thought of just solving the same problems in the same ways every day until I retire scares me.