Dan McKinley:

If you think about innovation as a scarce resource, it starts to make less sense to be on the front lines of innovating on databases. Or on programming paradigms.

The point isn’t really that these things can’t work. Of course they can work. But exciting new technology takes a great deal more attention to work than boring, proven technology does.

Some fantastic points about what your job is when building software and the trade-offs that are constantly in front of you.