What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last six months?
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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.

Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 30 May 2018 source ↗

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Kevin Rose Founder of Digg; investor and podcaster
I hate to plug my other podcast, but on episode two I went out and interviewed this guy that is a master of pens. He knows more about pens than we do about anything else on earth. He recommended three pens that have the absolute best rollerball pen, the best fountain pen – and these are all $4.00 pens. ... I swapped out my entire stock of pens at my desk with these cheap little $3.00 to $4.00 pens and they’re amazing.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 5 June 2018 source ↗
Jason Nemer Co-founder of AcroYoga; former national-level acrobat
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.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 6 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 ↗
Bill Gurley General partner at Benchmark Capital
I have a very peculiar answer. Really, really amazing nail clippers. Pay 50 bucks for them, or something. It could change your life, I promise.
Recorded Bill Gurley, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 20 July 2023 source ↗

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Question What is your favourite documentary, and what did it change for you? Taste & recommendation
I love documentaries. I really do. I think documentaries – I’m much more interested in non-fiction than fiction; just the way that I think about things. I can’t remember a documentary that I said, “That’s a bad documentary.” ... But as far as titles of documentaries? You know what was good was Amy. ... It was really good. The beauty and tragedy of an artistic genius.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 30 May 2018 source ↗

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