Them tools, them tools

One of the most important things in any profession is the ability to get access to the tools you need in order to do your job.

As a self-employed individual and applied to the world of software and services this gets ever more important for two obvious reasons: (1) You don’t have the time to fiddle around with tools that are too complex or to basic to do what you need to get done as fast and efficiently as possible and (2) you don’t have a lot of money to waste on licenses for software you cannot use.

Web Worker Daily has a stellar article on what you should be aware of when picking out the tools you need. Go read it and note the key message from the article:

…a software tool (whether a desktop application or a web application) is only worth adding to your collection if its expected value exceeds its expected cost.

So right. So right.