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Adds a draft framework post on how a durable-good purchase decision actually gets made.

File: bytesofpurpose-blog/blog/2026-08-04-deciding-what-to-buy.md
Frontmatter: kind: framework, authors: [oeid], draft: true, date: 2026-08-04T10:00

What it covers

  • Checking a listing's claimed capabilities against the vendor's own stated maximums — the cheapest decisive check in any category
  • Why the vendor's own support forum beat every published review
  • The sold-vs-asking gap, and why browsing a marketplace inflates your sense of value
  • The two points where the recommendation reversed on new information
  • A late-arriving requirement reordering the whole ranking

Notes

  • draft: true — flip it when ready to publish. Nothing goes live from this merge.
  • Preview locally with yarn start in bytesofpurpose-blog/.
  • Still open: tags, whether a social image is needed.

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https://claude.ai/code/session_018AoHTiaJc7KXq5xxQ6KwUW

Draft framework post on how a durable-good purchase decision actually
gets made: checking claimed capabilities against the vendor's own stated
maximums, why the vendor support forum beat every review, the sold-vs-
asking gap, and the two points where the recommendation reversed.

Marked draft: true — author flips it when ready to publish.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018AoHTiaJc7KXq5xxQ6KwUW
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