The next person to be featured in Tools for Titans is documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock who was nominated for an Oscar for his work in Super Size Me.

a) Once you get fancy, fancy gets broken

The book does not go into any detail on this idea but it does mention that this applies to a person's gear.

I see potential in this idea. As we live in a consumerist society, everything we buy gets successively more sophisticated as time goes by. Another words, our gadgets becomes progressively more complicated and fancy over time. A setup with many components gets broken more easily.

One example is in photography, amateurs are getting more equipment which is progressively used by professionals.  Having more equipment means that individual components like a lens or a stand may break while the camera is in use. Another interpretation is that progressively more time is required to ......