Aporia
@aporia9n
private equity by day, monitoring the situation by night
加入 April 2021
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always amazes me how much people underspend on day-to-day convenience / comfort
remember an ex investment banker colleague who’d happily spend $200 on dinners & clothes but always complained about his awful landlord mattress ruining his sleep
same thing with no AC, uncomfortable shoes, shit headphones, dead phone battery, moving the same charger around etc. each annoyance feels tiny in isolation so somehow paying to permanently remove it feels expensive
probably one of the easiest lifestyle upgrades once you make decent money is just finding everything that makes a normal day 2-5% worse and paying to remove it
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my rule of thumb for buying anything is simple. if i use it at least twice a day, i buy the best version i can reasonably afford.
e.g. the best toothbrush, the best sheets, the best shoes, the best chair, the best headphones, the best phone, etc.
maybe more specifically the formula is something like frequency x duration x intimacy with your body/attention. if it touches you, supports you, or mediates reality for hours every day, buy the best version you can afford.
this also applies to product development, you should build products that touch ppl’s lives at least twice a day (when i was at g larry page would often say this rule a lot at tgif).
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