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Inevitably they get bored or the fad dies out, nothing is gained, but then people still excitedly go along with the next one every time as if they have no memory of the previous 1000 iterations.

I suppose it's probably more fun than miserably judging everyone from the outside...

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Many of the people involved in the new fad don't have a memory of the previous 1000 iterations because they are different people. Many new people are joining the internet every day. Also be aware of the obvious-in-hindsight bias: anyone can point out fads after they've come and gone. It's not as easy confidently identifying the fads that are going on right now.

> The vast majority of people who work in the tech industry are perpetually 5 years out of university.

> So the vast majority of the time we get the same tools, the same frameworks, and the same ideas poorly reimplemented over and over.

I heard that at a talk by a salty tech OG. My experience doesn’t disagree with his observation, but I do have slightly more hope than he had.

Why not a third option of just enjoying life from any perspective you have, including sometimes being on the outside and sometimes on the inside?

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