Step 1. Don't over-think - somebody gave me this advice a few months ago in a very offhand and almost sneering way, but I couldn't thank them enough for having

Step 1. Don't over-think - somebody gave me this advice a few months ago in a very offhand and almost sneering way, but I couldn't thank them enough for having "don't overthink" finally seared into my head (especially since a lot of these phones are returnable, the decision need not be wholly life-course altering!) - you can almost always guarantee that flipping back and forth between opposing decisions is pretty much the worst course of action (when dealing with potential actions that don't consequentially affect your life in the short term - if you are deciding between crossing the street while the bus is coming towards you or waiting, that would be a counterexample to this, for instance) Step 2. Optimize for minimizing regret. Afterwards, getting stuff done. Most day to day decisions are inconsequential, and if not, you can improve on your initial choice - doing so eventually you get an accurate picture of the landscape of potential outcomes. Basically, for a lot of things you don't have to consider all the outcomes at the start, you pick up information as you go along. This can considerably reduce one's decision anxiety. In more technical terms, look up ergodicity; check out this guy's twitter: https://twitter.com/ole_b_peters https://twitter.com/ole_b_peters Step 3. Solve your anxiety. You seem like an anxious person. I was anxious like this too. It was totally exhausting, just totally exhausting. I've found that spending a little extra money is well worth reducing the headache of unwanted and exhausting contemplation. Your time is worth so much more than zero, and so much more than whatever your wage is. You know what tends to work well enough, most of the time? Getting the long-term consistently-popular device, the one that works great for both techies and non-techies alike. Instead of looking down upon people who didn't know how to even begin doing their research, I know look up to them for being able to make a good choice with almost no effort. A good example of this is that I myself also recently had to pick out a phone for myself. I spent a while researching different Android phones that had specs that would be at least as good as the top iPhone. But then the day before I made the decision, after years of being a committed Android guy, I just said fuck it. I'm getting an iPhone. And it vastly exceeded my expectations, and it made me realize my preconceived notions about what I actually want were pretty wrong. For a case, I just typed in the model of the iPhone + ' case' on Amazon, sorted by most popular, and got the Amazon choice one. Whatever, it worked great just fine with almost zero consideration. Brain time is valuable! We're knowledge workers! Let's make it easy on our heads.