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A.J. Jacobs

Journalist and author of The Year of Living Biblically

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That is a good question. Well, one thing I do love is my elastic shoelaces. ... So, you just replace the cloth shoelaces with these elastic… I think it’s called “Lace Lock” is the brand I use. And, yeah, shoelaces seem like such 18th century technology.

Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 20 June 2018 source ↗

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Ann Miura-Ko Co-founding partner of Floodgate; lecturer at Stanford University
Oh, my gosh. So, it’s actually a foldable chair. So, I go to my daughter’s soccer tournaments a lot and there’s this incredible foldable chair. I don’t know what is called. You can get it on Amazon. But it has this flip over sunshade that goes over your head, and for any parent who’s been at a swim tournament or anything, this is life-changing because often times I’m just baking in the hot sun.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 7 August 2018 source ↗
Michael Gervais Performance psychologist; host of the Finding Mastery podcast
Yeah, two things pop up. One is this $11.99 book that my wife bought my son and he won’t put it down. I have an eight-year-old son. ... Any little book that I give my son feels like the greatest gift in the world because he becomes mesmerized by the imagination and the stories inside of it.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 30 May 2018 source ↗
Malcolm Gladwell Staff writer at The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point and Outliers
Probably a piece of music. I think it was probably an album by Brian Eno called Another Green World, which is one of his early ‘70s, it’s ambient music, but not the kind of really weird ambient music. There’s an adage that says the music you discover when you are 18, I think it’s 18 is the magic year, is the music that stays with you for the rest of your life. ... Well, I discovered that when I was 18. And I sing the songs of that album in my head all of the time. And I worship Brian Eno.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 1 June 2018 source ↗
Chris Young Cook and inventor; co-author of Modernist Cuisine, co-founder of ChefSteps
I’ll give two answers. I bought a new electric teakettle. I used to have all the stovetop kettles. Even though I knew it was vastly better, I underestimated how much better my life would be by having an electric tea kettle so I can have tea actually quickly and more or less on demand with very little fuss.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 4 June 2018 source ↗

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