I hear a common complaint that programming has gotten harder over the years.

The more years I spent in software development, I fell into getting frustrated and blaming other people, or the technology.

But I realized that I was a big part of the problem - though it was hard to admit.

In this video, I share some things I didn't realize at first that I was doing to make my job harder than it needed to be.

0:00 Introduction
01:55 A History Dev Innovation Theory
04:44 Gut Checking Complexity
06:11 The Framework Explosion
09:00 Why Are We Making Dev Harder?
09:06 #1: Fear Of Career Irrelevance
09:48 #2: Underestimating Learning Costs
11:37 #3: Intellectual Masturbation
13:09 #4: Immaturity in Technology Selection

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