Those analogies break pretty fast. Try reading a book on an LCD on a sunny day. Depending on the kind of work you do you may not need to obsess over your tools

Those analogies break pretty fast. Try reading a book on an LCD on a sunny day. Depending on the kind of work you do you may not need to obsess over your tools and that obsession may actually hinder your creativity, when a base level of “fine” would do. But that doesn't mean tools don't matter. They very much do, at everything that can be called craftsmanship.