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What do you need or want to do that your current tech tools don't let you do, or don't do well/conveniently/efficiently enough?
Examples would be things like:
watch movies in bed
do work on a train/plane
home improvement
listen to music
keep a calendar/reminders/to-do list
play games
internet stuff (obviously there are subcategories here, but you'll know if there's an internet-shaped hole in some part of your life)
talk on the phone while doing something else (e.g. walking)
take photos/videos of stuff
scan documents onto your computer to send or store digitally
Don't spend more than 15-30 minutes on this.
Once you know what you want, you can start asking which things will give you what you want.
Great suggestion. I'm travelling at the moment, but will review this list. I saw the "don't spend 15-30min" on this and have managed to not really look at the list yet. I plan to revisit it next week and think this will be a good exercise.
Obviously you should adjust for your own money/time preference, but for most employed people in developed countries, the marginal benefit of optimizing a $400 purchase is not worth a whole lot of time, so if you can save an hour by satisficing you probably should.
You may also come up with things that weren't on the list but matter a lot to you. I just gave the examples I could come up with in a minute, so I'd suggestusing my list as a starting point, not an exhaustive list.