Cost Analysis: Trubrain Proprietary Nootropic Blend vs. Generic Equivalent
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Re: Cost Analysis: Trubrain Proprietary Nootropic Blend vs. Generic Equivalent
#2This was a nice breakdown of the unit costs, but I surprised by the author's conclusion. Even with a cheap value for his time ($25/hr), he's only saving about $15 dollars a year.
That said, kudos for explicitly including labor/time costs in the calculation.
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#3This was a nice breakdown of the unit costs, but I surprised by the author's conclusion. Even with a cheap value for his time ($25/hr), he's only saving about $15 dollars a year. That said, kudos for explicitly including labor/time costs in the calculation.
I initially included a calculation more specific to my life, but with most of my money coming in during the summer and the rest of the year spent in college I had a weird result that I thought might be unhelpful for the average reader. I chose to just give a simple value calculation instead.
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#4This was a nice breakdown of the unit costs, but I surprised by the author's conclusion. Even with a cheap value for his time ($25/hr), he's only saving about $15 dollars a year. That said, kudos for explicitly including labor/time costs in the calculation.
I think you should also consider the risk of getting bored when you do everything yourself. If the stuff really helps, you might not want to risk stopping because it's too much work.
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#5Regardless of whether you make it yourself - is there anything to this truBrain thing? Is this something we should all be doing? I'm looking for opinions/experiences from the HN community in general.
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#6It's funny to me that no one has ever claimed to have accomplished anything globally significant while using nootropics to my knowledge.
Mood elevators or stimulants, sure. Hitler was all into those. But, nootropics? I mean, I guess it depends on where you draw the line of what is considered one.
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#7It's funny to me that no one has ever claimed to have accomplished anything globally significant while using nootropics to my knowledge. Mood elevators or stimulants, sure. Hitler was all into those. But, nootropics? I mean, I guess it depends on where you draw the line of what is considered one.
Coffee. (Although I'm not totally sure that's considered a nootropic in this context.)
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#8Concurring with javert, an analysis of Trubrain's effectiveness would be awesome. e.g. conclusion that Trubrain increased my grades by x%, etc.
Even subjective observations would be interesting albeit not as persuasive.
Thanks for the cost analysis btw, very thorough job.
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#9Curious how this compares to something like Modafinil, or other Nootropics?
Re: Cost Analysis: Trubrain Proprietary Nootropic Blend vs. Generic Equivalent
#10This was a nice breakdown of the unit costs, but I surprised by the author's conclusion. Even with a cheap value for his time ($25/hr), he's only saving about $15 dollars a year. That said, kudos for explicitly including labor/time costs in the calculation.
I think you should also consider the risk of getting bored when you do everything yourself. If the stuff really helps, you might not want to risk stopping because it's too much work.
It's a hassle. I took a full stack of nootropics daily (a larger stack than what's described here, close to 20 pills / day) for about a year and ultimately just decided it was too much hassle. There are benefits, but laziness overruled. I may actually try this since having it all prepackaged for me is completely worth the difference in cost.