This is my own interpretation of the point, but then again I've always been a bit spartan about owning stuff both out of not having space for it and an intentio

This is my own interpretation of the point, but then again I've always been a bit spartan about owning stuff both out of not having space for it and an intentional desire to avoid things I don't need. To me there's a deeper point here about not using material possessions as a crutch for finding happiness and purpose, because it's a common crutch and its effects are temporary at best. The same applies to other sources of unnecessary, self-inflicted complexity in your life. Purging material possessions that you don't need seems like a useful conduit to reflect on a particularly common source of unnecessary, self-inflicted complexity. So if you need those tools to pursue your hobbies or career, then great, you should probably have those tools. Then the point applies to you in two questions: 1. How about all of the stuff you might own that isn't about your hardware/software projects? 2. Do you really need all of those gadgets? Perhaps you do, but I'd bet that there's some amount of semi-justifiable redundancy in there because there's an inherent rush of pleasure that comes from acquiring cool gadgets.