Technology stressed? Cool down. Relax.

Sometime I get technology stressed out. There are so many technologies coming all the time which I feel I must learn.
But then I think about India - where I am originated from - and I get relaxed. Because it's actually possible to just skip one or more phases. And you may still be a winner.

I am thinking about telephony. In India the infrastructure for landline telephony was never good. Most people never had any telephone and used telephone boots for calling. This was a great problem.

And then the cell phones arrived. And all of a sudden, telephony was not a problem any more! A great deal of the population could just skip the landline phase and go directly to cell phones. And it works great!

So sometimes when I get stressed about technologies I think the same way.
Some technologies come and then they disappear.
If I don't have time to learn them now - maybe it's not a problem. They may be replaced by something better or at least less buggy.
The longer I wait, the more experiences other have had from it, which I can learn from.

One thing most of us probably have experienced is how hard and frustrating it can be to be on bleeding edge. Since - you really bleed. The products to use are still not mature and you discover lots of bugs. Sometimes it can truly be effective to be one step behind!

As programmer, I love to learn new technologies. But soon vacation time is arriving - and I don't intend to be technology stressed then!

Don't be you either! :-)
After vacation - there may be a new release out there. Main bugs solved...and if you wait little more, the new introduced bugs will also be solved....