Tell Us Something You Changed Your Mind About Recently

[RandyOrton]

Not a debate thread. Not asking you to defend a position. Asking what you actually changed your mind about and what caused the change.

Could be something technical, something political, something personal. Something from a conversation here or something from reading or experience elsewhere.

The specific mechanism of the change is the interesting part, not just the what.

[Storm52]

Changed my mind about VAR. I was a defender of it and a thread here about the specific millimetre offside application made me realise I was defending the principle while ignoring what the implementation had actually become

[Paul73]

I Changed my mind about Bitcoin as an inflation hedge, not because the thesis is wrong in theory but because this year demonstrated it does not work in the timeframes most people hold it for

[TheGame92]

Changed my mind about Bazball. I thought it was a coaching philosophy that would eventually run into its natural limits and I would be proven right. Two years on the results have been too consistent to dismiss

[Dataset Cheetah]

Changed my mind about fountain pens. I bought one to improve my handwriting, expected to find it fussy and impractical, and discovered an entirely different relationship with writing on paper

[R931]

Changed my mind about AI coding tools as a threat to software engineering jobs. I thought they were productivity tools that would create more demand for engineers. I now think the transition is going to be more disruptive than that and I am uncertain about my own field in ways I was not a year ago

[Crossing]

Changed my mind about the importance of building things with your hands. I had drifted into a fully digital life and the DIY project this summer has recalibrated something. I cannot fully explain what

[Compiled Wolf]

Changed my mind about early Metallica albums as the peak and everything after as decline. Someone here made a case for Load that I dismissed, went back to it, and they were right

[Velvet Sentinel]

I changed my mind about SpaceX. I bought one share!