The moment you decide you’re done learning, you’ve quietly started to expire.

Staying current is less about information than about staying flexible. Deciding you already know how things work quietly freezes you at whatever year you stopped in, and nothing outside pauses to match. The drift is slow enough that it mostly feels like everyone else changing for no reason.

Pick something this year that makes you a beginner again, ideally something with no professional use at all. Ask questions in rooms where you are meant to be the one who knows. Being willing to look uninformed is the price of not quietly going out of date.