During my first few years of surfing, I would try (and buy) lots of different surfboards. Also happened to me that as I earned money, I spent more and more on surfboards.
I moved countries a few years ago and sold all my boards back at home, and just got two boards here (one for small waves, one for larger waves). That turned out to be so much better for me. I don't spend so much time looking at every detail of the surfboard, instead I just go surf. I try new things on the surfboards I have, and it tends to be about techniques and less so about the boards themselves. Occasionally I will try my mate's surfboards and I think that they're nice, but not enough to justify spending more money on another board.
I don't believe it's 100% about proneness to get caught up in that kind of stuff. I guess for me it was more just trying to get the most out of the experience. Ironically enough I wasn't surfing as much before moving to a different country, whereas where I currently live I surf 2-3 times a week. Maybe there's some parallels there? As in the more you actually practice X, the more you're likely to find the subset of tools that actually work for you?
That said, I do still believe (and agree with the link) in a few times a year testing out new languages, frameworks, etc, so see what the fuss is about, and in the process learn new things that I might bring back to my current project or toolset.
During my first few years of surfing, I would try (and buy) lots of different surfboards. Also happened to me that as I earned money, I spent more and more on surfboards.
I moved countries a few years ago and sold all my boards back at home, and just got two boards here (one for small waves, one for larger waves). That turned out to be so much better for me. I don't spend so much time looking at every detail of the surfboard, instead I just go surf. I try new things on the surfboards I have, and it tends to be about techniques and less so about the boards themselves. Occasionally I will try my mate's surfboards and I think that they're nice, but not enough to justify spending more money on another board.
I don't believe it's 100% about proneness to get caught up in that kind of stuff. I guess for me it was more just trying to get the most out of the experience. Ironically enough I wasn't surfing as much before moving to a different country, whereas where I currently live I surf 2-3 times a week. Maybe there's some parallels there? As in the more you actually practice X, the more you're likely to find the subset of tools that actually work for you?
That said, I do still believe (and agree with the link) in a few times a year testing out new languages, frameworks, etc, so see what the fuss is about, and in the process learn new things that I might bring back to my current project or toolset.