- NLNOG is a community of Dutch network operators that hosts events with talks on both technology and human topics like toxic environments, autism in IT, and digital legacies.
- The speaker presented the fourth part of a work trilogy, focusing on evaluating and dealing with new technologies and change.
- New technologies can be hype, nonsense, or genuinely useful; avoid blindly following trends or stagnating with outdated tech.
- Evaluate new technologies critically, possibly with community input, and examine your own emotional reactions to them.
- Occasionally doing something completely different, like customer support, can improve your technical skills and mental models.