I embrace change for the simple reason that one day I'm going to be dead and I don't want to be taken by surprise. I have to say however -- even as a techie, nerdy, geeky, professional engineer -- that working with new technology can be trying to say the least. Many technology projects run afoul of a drift that I call "disinfrastructure". The project becomes bogged down when the vision is too broad, the tool is used to solve too many problems or the project loses focus. Sometimes the great leap forward of a batch change becomes a hopeless retreat into obscurity.

The moral of technological change experience is that continuous change is better than batch or step change. But step change is the hardest change of all. That's why short term dieting or manic exercise campaigns only produce short term results; they are not long term, continuous processes of productive change. The batch change is not a behaviour modifying experience; it's a trial. You get bored, you don't see results, you revert to previous behaviours and then... No change at all.