believe the way toward mastery of any endeavor is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge. The more you know, the less you need.
As the Dalai Lama, another true Essentialist, has said: "If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness."
David Thoreau (who wrote, "I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; ... so simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real").5