May Likes TorontoYeah yeah, everyone on the fedi's heard about your ✨special interests✨.
But what about your fleeting interests?
Momomoto@mayintoronto OK, I thought about this all evening and wonder if high-quality keyboards count for me. I wanted to buy a nice one, so I tried some switches out, and then bought two Keychrons with those switches. Love them, but I’ve no interest in looking for a better switch or building one from the board up. What’s the ruling?
mhoye@Momomoto @mayintoronto I have a longstanding idea I call "olive garden optimization", that was born from learning that there was once upon a time an Olive Garden Culinary Institute in Tuscany. The idea was that they'd ship their managers there, show them a michelin star Tuscany-restaurant experience and then say "ok, we've got six sauces, four pasta shapes, decent wine, local line cooks and endless breadsticks. How can we use that to give people 80% of this experience for 15% of the price?"
@Momomoto @mayintoronto I see a lot of "fleeting interests" through this lens - what's the sweet spot for 'much, much better than what I had' without overspend or obsession, how do I get there, and then sitting with that for a while.
The nice part of it is that if you ever decide you need More or Better, the process of researching and living for a while in an olive-garden-optimal position gives you a lot of clarity about of what your next-steps options are and what they'll cost.
Ted Mielczarek@mhoye @Momomoto @mayintoronto this is pretty solid advice. there just aren't enough hours in the day to be That Intense about *everything* in your life, but that doesn't mean you can't make things a bit nicer for yourself. I looked into pens years ago, settled on the uniball jetstream, bought a few packs of them and have been happy ever since.