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Choose Boring Technology (2015)

Hacker News Top · 2026-08-13 Cached

An influential essay arguing that companies should favor mature, 'boring' technology for most problems, saving limited 'innovation tokens' for areas of true differentiation. It emphasizes the importance of known failure modes and global optimization over novelty.

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