How do we make things ‘future-proof’, and why?

With technology, it seems the best strategy is to just buy whatever is newest, most expensive, and max it out. This is the strategy that my old IT director boss taught me:

When you gotta buy new equipment for the office, it is best to just buy the most expensive, top-of-the-line computers, and squeeze 5-8 years out of them, than to buy mid-tier stuff, only to have to replace them in around 2-3 years.

For example, I bought my 13” MacBook Pro Touch Bar (refurbished, maxed out, in 2017) and it has still worked pretty well until now (although with macOS Monterey it is starting to slow down a bit):

With the storage, it seemed that 1TB (terabyte) was excessive at the time, but it looks like always having the additional extra (extreme) buffer is wise:

This is why in some regards, the new iPhone Pro with 1 Terabyte of storage is actually quite smart:

Buy your phone now, maxed out (spend ~$1500 USD), but don’t think about it for the next 5-8 years.

Even when I got the new iPad Pro, I got the mid-tier storage (256 GB), and actually quickly maxed it out with importing my photos. A simple workaround is just shooting extra small JPEG on my RICOH GR IIIX.

With cars, it seems the wisest option (if you can afford it) is just get a maxed out Tesla Model S Plaid (0-60 in 1.99 seconds), which will probably not be beat for many years in terms of speed. And we all know that speed is paramount. And like Google AMP says (Google Accelerated Mobile Pages) says:

If it is not instant, it is not fast enough.

I suppose the theory of trying to make things as ‘future proof’ as possible is:

Quit wasting our time, mental resources and reserves to think about the future, just get the best right now, and don’t think about it for the next decade, and just focus on what is most important– creation.

Creating words, creating blog posts, creating articles, writing books, making photos, and doing creative artistic things.

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