If you want to buy things, I like these resources for finding good things to buy:
- Wirecutter has exceedingly in-depth reviews explaining what the best version is of numerous key products — especially electronics — including why that thing is the best and what difference it makes if you go for the best cheap or best spendy alternative
- The Strategist is a bit lifestyle-magazine-ish, but I forgive it because it has pretty darned good taste in a range of products.
- The Sweet Setup is a guide to applications for Apple devices, including not just the best solutions but a lot of advice about using them well
- The MacRumours Buyers' Guide will help you guess where an Apple product is in its release cycle, to reduce the odds that you buy something and then discover a few weeks later that a major upgrade was released right afterward
- Cool Tools is a huge collection of quirky, interesting reviews of a vast range of useful things
- The Ones is a site maintained by some hip but (mostly) practical industrial designers listing their favorite, rock-solid products
- Some things that are really quite good: “it’s just amazing how good the quality end of manufactured goods is, particularly compared to the landfill-fodder which is the norm”
- Buy Me Once is a web store for very well-made stuff
- What life-changing item can you buy for less that $100? is a wooly but fun and helpful Reddit discussion
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