In a 2020 article, Kris de Decker, the founder of Low Tech Magazine, advocates for the use of older laptops, highlighting his own shift from purchasing three new laptops between 2000 and 2017 to a secondhand machine bought in 2018. This transition drastically reduced his yearly costs while conserving energy resources. His views are supported by Tim Rodenbröker who argues that creative constraints can lead to better ideas, emphasizing that an overload of options can often result in mediocrity.
From 2000-2017, I bought three laptops for €5000, each eventually breaking, leading me to invest in a 2006 secondhand machine for just €150.
Buying secondhand slashes costs and conserves energy resources; my laptop's yearly expense dropped from €300 to just €26.
Constraints often prove to be the opposite of their traditional definition. I'm absolutely convinced that constraints are the most powerful driver for good ideas.
In our current environment, options are only growing larger, and at a rapidly increasing pace, making it harder to make choices.
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