Computer related:
- Don’t be your family computer savy guy, you just found yourself a bunch payless jobs…
- Long desks are cool and all, but the amount the space they occupy is not worth it.
- Block work related phone calls at weekends, being disturbed at your leisure for things that could be resolved on Mondays will sour your day.
Buying stuff:
- There is expensive because of brand and expensive because of material quality, do your research.
- Buck buying is underrated, save yourself a few bucks, pile that toilet paper until the ceiling is you must.
- Second hand/broken often means never cleaned, lubricated or with easy fixable problem.
Life exists within the grey area that is constantly bombarded by polarized extremism. Don’t buy into the “all” mentality. Because in reality it’s always just “some.”
In no particular order:
Advice is usually worth (at most) what you pay for it.
The harshest lessons are about trusting the wrong person.
No one will have more words for you, than a lazy person who wants you to do something for them.
Judge weak people by their natures, and strong ones by their goals.
If possible, don’t be poor. If you are though, be wary of following advice on this topic from people who have never been poor for an extended period.
There is expensive because of brand and expensive because of material quality, do your research.
If “do your research” means take a couple minutes to make sure there aren’t glaring red flags about a purchase, then yeah that checks, but I see this phrase used as a more serious concept which just doesn’t seem realistic given my experiences.
I feel like if you don’t already know what to look for in your specific product of interest it’s impossible to do research and have confidence. Like when I don’t know where to start and try to research products through a search, I go through so much SEO bullshit in such a short timeframe that I have no confidence in anything I’m looking at, including the stuff that looks like it has a good chance of being legit. Maybe I can find a forum of some sort, but I’ll need a way to tell that the users aren’t just talking out of their asses (or bots, or paid sponsors). Major review sites are a mess.
The phrase “do your research” is way overstated, because someone who knows what they need to look at is already going to do research and is not the target audience. The time it takes to filter through all the nonsense and form a coherent opinion researching something from scratch is so enormous that it’s hard for me to imagine someone actually doing that diligently for anything less expensive than a car. What actually happens is you just give up partway and make your best guess like you would have done in the first place. At that point your research has led you to seeing a bunch of ads and a few conflicting opinions. Yeah, that will influence your decision and possibly be helpful, but the benefits are marginal compared to the time investment, it’s rarely worth more than a few minutes if it’s not a major purchase.
Or maybe everyone else is a lot better at this than me and I’m making a fool out of myself by posting this.
The fact that you understand that something is an ad is a undervalued skill, sure there is lots garbage to go through(it’s the current state of the internet), but it’s not like you are looking at 12 brands of pasta at supermarket, just picking one it’s ok in some scenarios.
Merlin Mann has collected his version of such a list here: https://github.com/merlinmann/wisdom/blob/master/wisdom.md
I very much enjoy reading it from time to time, even if I disagree with some of the points.
Being polite costs you nothing but may buy you much.
Alternatively, being angry may cost you some elevated blood pressure but may buy you so much.
