{"id":669022,"date":"2026-03-13T12:35:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=669022"},"modified":"2026-03-13T12:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:36:09","slug":"be-maximally-skeptical-to-the-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/13\/be-maximally-skeptical-to-the-new\/","title":{"rendered":"be maximally skeptical to the new."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Old is supreme. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p> perhaps even as a wise idea\u2026 The most wise course of action is, to only ever stick to the old stuff which works 80% good enough, knowing that the newer product might have some sort of critical goal flaw that you might have no idea about?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> i\u2019ll give you a random example\u2026 I just tried out this new Trader Joe\u2019s sunblock, which looked all fancy and whatever\u2026 But the big up side was also the downside that I had no idea about, it is actually an actuality super slippery, and as a consequence, it accidentally got on my bike seat, and I almost slipped off my bike? Thank God it wasn\u2019t my son Seneca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> so maybe then the thought is, if you have the product that always works 80% good enough, always stick to it ruthlessly, unless it just literally was discontinued or no longer exists? The same goes with phones, cameras, digital devices, analog devices, your car your bicycle etc.?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-jetpack-videopress jetpack-videopress-player\" style=\"\" >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old is supreme. perhaps even as a wise idea\u2026 The most wise course of action is, to only ever stick to the old stuff which works 80% good enough, knowing that the newer product might have some sort of critical goal flaw that you might have no idea about? i\u2019ll give you a random example\u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669024,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669022\/revisions\/669024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}