Andy Nicolaides blogs in ‘I’m not a Pro, and that’s okay’ about how buying the best of everything felt overbearing, but his new experiment in buying basic has been liberating:

Because it cost so much, I ended up almost feeling pressure to use it for every task I had, whether it was suitable for the task or not. […]

I can admit now I’m no photographer, writer, podcaster, video editor, or anything else I somehow thought spending thousands on hardware I ended up only using 5% of the potential of. And, at 40 years of age, I never will be, and you know what? That’s just fine by me!