FOMO: “Fear Of Missing Out”
There’s so much content, drama and people excited about tech, I both like it and dread it.
Especially true when people I trust are very into something, makes me feel like I’m missing out on opportunities.
What I used to do: Add a todo like “I’ll check on it this weekend” but for a reason or another if I skipped it and kept seeing signals about the thing I would feel even more FOMO
So, what I’m doing now it to invest some time as soon as I can, 20-30 min is enough, time I can steal from social medias or Netflix without problems. And find all info I can about that thing, especially answering those answering my own questions, 9/10 times I end up learning some details that totally remove the desire and and FOMO from me, some others, it gives me the true interest to keep going with curiosity instead of fear.
Some recent examples Claude Code: convinced after a short session MCP: Mostly overhyped Convex: seems really cool, I was like “I should refactor one of my projects to this” but I soon realized that not for me. Effect TS: It’s a rabbit home I’m willing to jump in!