Use what you have to understand what you need

It's tempting when starting something new to seek out the best possible tools.

After all, we humans got this far by acquiring progressively more powerful tools to help us survive and thrive.

I like to think that my own obsession with new and better tools is simply a genealogical imperative, passed down generations from the first of my forebears to wield a flaming torch, or a knife.

More probably, however, is that I'm obsessive, impulsive, a gear head, and have a remarkable talent for selling myself on the idea of buying the thing.

The thing, with the thing, is that most often we don't need it.

Acquiring the best version of a tool will only make it more difficult to understand what you truly need from it.

Under the gadgetry are the bones of something you really do need. So don't rush to buy the best version of a tool you don't own.

How else will you later come to appreciate it?