Efficiency In Tool Selection: A Method

Nice Post, interesting process.

I just went through all the steps in my head and got a very clear vision of the knife that fits. Unfortunately there is no knife I know or heard of that would match my mental image :(

Need to start over I guess...
 
Once you get past 100 knives, its no longer about employing scientific methodology to pick the next one. I pretty much have all of my bases covered when it comes to size, utility, etc. So for me, at least, its about looking for a cool toy that makes me feel good and is fun to play with and carry. I talk myself into believing that I'll actually carry this next one, even though I have a ton of them already that never get carried much. Using a spreadsheet and differential calculus to figure out that I want a Dragonfly SE seems pretty joyless and robotronic to me, but we all come to this game from different directions.
 
Nal0n said:
Nice Post, interesting process.

I just went through all the steps in my head and got a very clear vision of the knife that fits. Unfortunately there is no knife I know or heard of that would match my mental image :(

Need to start over I guess...
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Custom? :)

powernoodle said:
Once you get past 100 knives, its no longer about employing scientific methodology to pick the next one. I pretty much have all of my bases covered when it comes to size, utility, etc. So for me, at least, its about looking for a cool toy that makes me feel good and is fun to play with and carry. I talk myself into believing that I'll actually carry this next one, even though I have a ton of them already that never get carried much. Using a spreadsheet and differential calculus to figure out that I want a Dragonfly SE seems pretty joyless and robotronic to me, but we all come to this game from different directions.
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The more formalized aspects of this approach are sort of hand-holds for those who aren't experienced or disciplined enough yet to make these kinds of comparisons/decisions in their head. I do all of this stuff mentally and with a bit more free form approach.
 
I usually over analyze to the point of searching for that one missing factor that I may have over looked. I fear buyers remorse to a fault. Needless to say I will use your process as away to buoy, or sink my assessments.
 
Don't forget that any of the stages you can shortcut by doing in your head, feel free to! The key is simply making sure you don't miss any steps, do them out of order, or rush them by not digging down on enough to find the true root answers for each stage.
 
Some what like tacking until you find the last morsel of info that dictates the direction one would best go.
 
powernoodle said:
Once you get past 100 knives, its no longer about employing scientific methodology to pick the next one. I pretty much have all of my bases covered when it comes to size, utility, etc. So for me, at least, its about looking for a cool toy that makes me feel good and is fun to play with and carry. I talk myself into believing that I'll actually carry this next one, even though I have a ton of them already that never get carried much. Using a spreadsheet and differential calculus to figure out that I want a Dragonfly SE seems pretty joyless and robotronic to me, but we all come to this game from different directions.
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I would be willing to bet that his over analysis is a large part of the joy for him. I do the same in different areas or ways. Keeps ya off the streets.
 
A lot of it is stuff that's relatively easy to intuit, but describing it precisely in neat terms just gets a bit...verbose. :D
 
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