Choose Boring Technology
This is the spoken word version of my essay, Choose Boring Technology. I have largely come to terms with it and the reality that I will never escape its popularity.
Choose Boring Technology The .club Club # Hey # I’m Dan McKinley. That’s me in the hole. It’s a metaphor. # I work for a company called Mailchimp, or Mailkimp if you listen to podcasts. I was an early employee at Etsy, and that was a formative experience for me, so I’ll refer to my time there a lot. But I’ve worked for a few other places since. # I’ve worked at big companies and at smaller ones, and at my own tiny startups. I’ve noticed a few things. Big companies can have a branded way of doing engineering. For example, “The Etsy Way” of doing engineering became a thing. Living inside of that
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