This is especially relevant in tech. I feel a lot of language hype and framework churn is due to this obsession with whatever is newest and most shiny.
If you're going to go deep in a technology be sure it's one that's not likely to be supplanted a few years down the road.
+1. Super-expert COBOL experts probably get paid pretty well, but there are few of them.
I clicking on this telling myself that this was the last post I would read today on HN and I'm glad I did. This is exactly the kind of thing I wanted to read and I'm going to spend my time in the coming year holding this philosophy close.
So you won't read any more articles, just re-read this one?