Pro tip: I was dead wrong about renting studio space after one bad month

I used to think owning my own creative studio gear was the only way to go. Then last fall in Austin I rented a space with a top-end Risograph printer for a zine project, figuring I'd save money. But the machine jammed twice, the staff was gone by 5 PM, and my print run got delayed by 3 days. Now I'm looking at buying my own smaller press because that rental taught me reliability beats flexibility every time. Anyone else swear off renting after a disaster like that?

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morgan_jenkins901d ago

Reliability beats flexibility" - thats the real lesson right there.

reeseanderson19h ago

I used to think flexibility was everything honestly. I'd pick the tool that could do 100 things poorly over the one that did one thing perfectly. But man, that phrase "reliability beats flexibility" really hit me hard. There's nothing like waking up at 3am to a system that crashed because you wanted something fancy instead of something that just works. You can have all the flexibility in the world but if it breaks every other day, what's the point? It took me way too long to realize that boring and stable is actually the best kind of exciting.