Making purchasing decisions

• Hmm...should I group this with decisions that don't involve spending money, but involve spending time? It seems like those are kind of equivalent.

General ideas

• It seems the amount of time/money that you spend researching the decision should be proportional to the amount of time/money you will be spending based on the decision.

My purchasing decisions

• Interview Kickstart
  • I suspect this was not a great decision, but I'm not totally sure. I think the anxiousness / procrastination I felt was part of what motivated me to get my auto-remoteok program working, so it may have had an unintended benefit.
• Trump bet

Checklist for making purchasing decisions

• Ask for previous customers that you can talk to?

Examples of purchasing decisions to learn from

• The van
• the CFA
• Interview Kickstart
  • I didn't really do a whole lot of due diligence
  • it turned out that the majority of the students already had programming jobs
  • the class was assuming a level of knowledge a little ahead of what I had.

Buying food

• How do you know whether it's worth extra to get a fancier kind of food?
  • Example: I can buy $14/lb salmon or I can buy sardines.
  • I'm assuming that the social aspect of the food is held constant; i.e. you aren't choosing between eating alone for less money or eating with others for more money.
  • I suspect the answer is based on the actual nutrients in the food.