Ali buys a Dell Axim PDA as a boy, a total waste of money
story · status: told 2× · last event: retold (2022-02-28) · owner: Ali
About: Dell Axim
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-06 | told | At 12 Ali saved his Eid and birthday money to buy a Dell Axim (as heard) PDA, to signal to himself that he was a techie, entrepreneurial, geeky sort of guy. | iPhone 11 & 11 Pro - Review 00:13:00 |
| 2022-02-28 | retold | At about 13 Ali bought a Dell Axim personal digital assistant he had no need for, because he wanted to be a tech and business-organiser type; he calls it a total waste of money. | 5 Financial Mistakes I've Made In The Last 10 Years 00:01:56 |
What is said about it
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- 2022-02-28 · 5 Financial Mistakes I've Made In The Last 10 Years — recommendation: Ali's fourth spending rule: ask whether you really want a thing or just like the idea of it; with the Dell Axim he was in love with the idea of having a PDA, the feeling of being an important business person. — 00:04:22
- 2019-11-06 · iPhone 11 & 11 Pro - Review — Ali says everyone plays status games, from phone cameras to cars, job titles and TikTok followers, and using an iPhone as a status symbol is a pretty harmless desire for status. — 00:13:58
- 2019-11-06 · iPhone 11 & 11 Pro - Review — recommendation: Ali does not call wanting the iPhone 11 or 11 Pro for status necessarily bad, but says that if status is the real reason to upgrade, it is worth being honest with yourself about it. — 00:14:28
- 2022-02-28 · 5 Financial Mistakes I've Made In The Last 10 Years — Ali's first spending rule is the law of diminishing returns: the more you have of a particular thing, the less happiness you get from it. — 00:02:26
- 2022-02-28 · 5 Financial Mistakes I've Made In The Last 10 Years — recommendation: Ali: Asked which iPad to buy, Ali says it depends on what you have and need: going from no iPad to even the budget iPad is a big jump, but upgrading to the iPad Air or iPad Pro brings massive diminishing returns. — 00:02:26
- 2022-02-28 · 5 Financial Mistakes I've Made In The Last 10 Years — recommendation: Ali's second spending rule: before an upgrade, ask whether there is anything you would rather spend the money on, such as a life-changing piece of tech or an experience you are far more likely to remember. — 00:03:24
- 2022-02-28 · 5 Financial Mistakes I've Made In The Last 10 Years — recommendation: Ali names two life-changing pieces of tech everyone should save up for: a Kindle, which helps you read more books, and AirPods or similar earbuds, which make listening to audiobooks much easier. — 00:03:24
- 2022-02-28 · 5 Financial Mistakes I've Made In The Last 10 Years — recommendation: Ali's third spending rule: ask whether you really want a thing or only want it because society wants you to, for example whether you would still buy it if you were the only person on earth. — 00:03:53
- 2022-02-28 · 5 Financial Mistakes I've Made In The Last 10 Years — Ali calls the Apple Watch broadly a flex item he buys to signal something to himself and others, whereas he would buy a laptop even as the only person left on earth, to create things. — 00:03:53