If you look at tech broadly as it stands today and you listen to a "loud majority" of voices coming from X, reddit, and other media, you'd get the impression that there are some ground truths that if you don't follow them you're going to fall behind.
Not only is this wrong, it's dangerous advice. Their incentives are misaligned: they want engagement and they masquerade it with content that is designed to elicit a stronger reaction for you to put your eyeballs on it. If you asked some of these people, they'd tell you, "I'm building in public or trying to spread the good word of this new thing."
How about this;
- Since the bar has raised, the level of quality required to make something good has as well.
- Acting from first principles will get you farther. Sometimes you need to go analog before you go digital.
- Read quality blogs widely, learn from the source, don't outsource your understanding, if you do outsource some thinking, it better be intentional.
- The loud majority isn't always right. People optimize for engagement over truth.
So, some* are cosplaying and aren't worth listening to. The signal to noise ratio is off the charts. They're not building something valuable, they are acting as if they are, but what they have produced is dubious and unproven at best. If you listen to those voices, you'd hear "Try my new framework: it's giving X, Y, and Z metric that isn't positively correlated with quality outcomes and did I mention it solved this problem that I didn't appropriately spec out or understand?".
If you're evangelizing about some bullshit concepts to improve your velocity but you've produced a newsletter or glorified todo-list, maybe you should reevaluate your strategy. If this is your first step in your journey, that's fine. But if it isn't and you're using it as a milestone, think harder.
If you want to keep your sanity, filter 95% of the noise and only accept things that pass your filter. If you let anything else in, be careful.