earth-shattering

Not exactly an earth-shattering observation, nor one that's unique to the past 50 (or 500) years.

Make a significant contribution to an existing project, which carries a lot more weight than starting a new one unless you create something earth-shattering.

Sure, we have object-oriented programming, but that's really not anything earth-shattering from a language design standpoint.

When I was younger I wanted to do something huge and earth-shattering with my life.

Do you really think that I'd be poised to launch the next Earth-shattering blogazine, if only I understood the subtle point of this article?

It's not too deep, it doesn't contain Earth-shattering advice, but it has served to re-focus my efforts to get things done in a mountain of tasks, obligations and distractions.

[1] There is then the question of these cross-cutting, earth-shattering domain changes you mention.

But I haven't found anything truly earth-shattering.

> Do you really think that I'd be poised to launch the next Earth-shattering blogazine, if only I understood the subtle point of this article?

I have met 2 of the founders in this list personally, and was a bit surprised by the stories - not entirely, there's nothing earth-shattering in the details - but still surprised to see the shutdowns.

And given the amount of real profits and revenues in the category of "technology," my contention is that there won't be, as Marc Andreessen puts it, an "earth-shattering kaboom."