Toolbelt Psychology-- How to use Tools without Becoming One

In an ecosystem of ever-increasing tools -- both generalized and specialized -- we're reaching a point where the available Linux toolchain has far surpassed what anybody could have imagined many years ago. With so many choices, teams are faced with a tendency to paralyze themselves by endless arguing over which tool is "best".

We'll talk about the history of tools, the history of Linux and how we got to such an embaressment of riches and what can be done to free ourselves from "toolchain paralysis".