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.
What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last six months?
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What small daily thing do you do that most people would consider a waste of time?
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As a child, it was a yo-yo because I never could master the yo-yo, and it would drive me crazy. And the fact that I couldn’t master it drove me crazy.
Cal Fussman, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 30 May 2018 source ↗
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Ann Miura-Ko
Co-founding partner of Floodgate; lecturer at Stanford University
Luis von Ahn
Co-founder and chief executive of Duolingo; co-inventor of CAPTCHA
Easy, easy. An electric toothbrush. I got the Oral-B iO. This changes your life. I mean you can’t go back. You can’t go back.
A.J. Jacobs
Journalist and author of The Year of Living Biblically
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.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Founder and chief executive of Bumble
That’s a great question. Coconut oil. ... Everything. You can take a bath with it. You can put it in a smoothie. You can cook vegetables with it. You can actually put it on your skin. I think coconut oil is a cheap miracle buy.
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