We’ve already got it. It’s the Frisbees, for sure. I was hanging out with my two brothers and my dad. We decided to drive up the coast and my two brothers and me, we’ve played Frisbee golf our whole lives so we love it, and my dad, not so much. But we got a bunch of discs and then we went really high up on Highway 1 and threw them out into the ocean.
What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last six months?
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What is the worst advice you received that you followed anyway?
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What small daily thing do you do that most people would consider a waste of time?
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This is easy. It’s called Mother Dirt. It clears your skin, and it cost $49.00. My skin was a hot mess for most of my adolescence and into my 20’s.
Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 6 February 2018 source ↗
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Jason Nemer
Co-founder of AcroYoga; former national-level acrobat
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.
Reid Hoffman
Co-founder of LinkedIn; partner at Greylock Partners
This is going to sound a little strange, but my trainer started recommending that I add moringa leaf powder to my tea. That’s actually added a rich antioxidant, anti inflammatory and a little bit more substance such that drinking tea now feels a little bit like a snack and is super healthy.
Andrew Weil
Physician; founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona
Yes. Well, one of them I’m holding in my hand right now. And my daughter turned me onto these. She’s now 28. Computer glasses, which I got on Amazon. I don’t know. They were less than $20. But these are yellow-tinted glasses that enlarge things slightly. That has totally changed my comfort in sitting in front of a screen.
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But here’s one I guess that’s more important to me. It’s not something I confess regularly. But every night before I go to bed, I pull out old issues of Archie comics and read them.
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