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                    I think this horse is beyond glue now …
                                        
> I no longer find Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Developer Tool [1] list
> inspiring. Instead, it's fatiguing. The pace of change in the world of
> software is relentless [2]. We're so inundated with the Shiny and the New
> that the very concepts themselves start to disintegrate, the words repeated
> over and over and over until they devolve into a meaningless stream of
> vowels and consonants. “Shiny” and “new” become mundane, even commonplace.
> It's no longer unique for something to be new, no longer interesting when
> something is shiny. Eventually, you grow weary of the endless procession of
> shiny new things.
> 

“The Magpie Developer [3]”

Jeff Atwood's [4] rant on the everchanging landscape of the Computer Industry
[5] (read the whole thing— it's worth it) expands upon my continuing rant
against control panels [6].

But this, perhaps, is my argument in a nutshell:

> I'm about to admit something odd, and perhaps career-threatening: I'm sick
> of learning.
> 
> There, I said it, and I feel better.
> 

“Do Yourself a Favor and Stop Learning [7]”

Read that as well.

It's just that at times, I'm running as fast as I can just to stay in place
[8].

[1] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2007UltimateDeveloperAnd
[2] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000545.html
[3] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000916.html
[4] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000021.html
[5] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000916.html
[6] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2008/01/05.1
[7] http://gadgetopia.com/post/1081
[8] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000545.html

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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