When I was 14 years old, I withdrew every dollar from my small savings account to buy the newly released -original- iPhone. In my school of around 1,500 middle-class students, no one I knew owned one yet, and I had convinced myself that if I acquired one before everyone else, that would make me special, or unique, or worthy in some way that I wasn't already. I believe the iPhone was the first "tool" I purchased whose purpose, while having some utility, was mostly about someth
