Did you learn tech by only applying optimal solutions to well analyzed problems ? I bet that a lost of your progress has rather been fuel by sheer joyful experiments with technologies you fancied, thus validating them for less adventurous users who had actual problems to solve. Those guys make Arduino - they pretty much embody that spirit !

> tech hipsterism

Thank you! I have been looking for the right words to describe this for ages. You nailed it.