Jeremy Zawodny also notes the diminishing luster of shiny new things: Over a year ago I unsubscribed from Steve's blog because he had a habit of writing in breathless fashion about the latest shiny new thing – often several times a day. Eventually, you grow weary of the endless procession of shiny new things. It's no longer unique for something to be new, no longer interesting when something is shiny. "Shiny" and "new" become mundane, even commonplace. 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. The pace of change in the world of software is relentless. I no longer find Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Developer Tool list inspiring. But we are too easily distracted by shiny new toys and playthings. Like Magpies, software developers are unusually smart and curious creatures, almost by definition. I've often thought that software developers were akin to Magpies, birds notorious for stealing shiny items to decorate their complex nests.
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