Matt Diggity’s Favorite Purchases of 2020

2020 has been rather the year, hasn’t it?

I cognize I personally person recovered solace done these troubling times by doing what ever makes maine consciousness amended erstwhile I’m down: buying monolithic amounts of worldly things!

Jokes aside.

I person stumbled upon immoderate impactful products and services passim the twelvemonth that I’d similar to stock with you, conscionable similar I bash each year, with nary affiliate links.

Here’s a database of my favourite purchases of 2020.

Productivity

Kindle + Audible Combination

I’ve ever had a Kindle for speechmaking e-books.

I’ve ever had Audible for listing to audiobooks connected my iPhone.

But this twelvemonth I yet discovered utilizing them at the aforesaid fucking time!!

Read the publication visually connected your Kindle portion the audiobook is being work to you astatine 1.5x – 2x speed.

You’ll devour books astatine lightspeed, but the absorption level remains high, arsenic if you were reading.

You tin adjacent person the Kindle app connected iPad negociate some services for an adjacent amended acquisition (it highlights the substance arsenic it reads to you).

Note: you person to bargain some the eBook and the audio versions of a book, but I archer you, this is simply a gamechanger.

Samsung 34″ Ultra-Wide Monitor

I was successful the dual-screen campy for a agelong time.

I don’t cognize wherefore it took maine truthful agelong to effort an ultra-wide. I conjecture I thought things would look goofy each stretched retired implicit a immense screen.

Now, I can’t spell back.

Work is much efficient, gaming is importantly better, and my wide enjoyment of my 2^nd woman (my PC) is higher.

The lone downside is that if you bash immoderate benignant of surface seizure utilizing PowerPoint, you’ll person to support a 16:9 solution show connected hand, different your video is going to get stretched out.

Personal Finance

WealthFront

I’ve stayed distant from banal investing for the past 6 years.

Namely due to the fact that of a atrocious acquisition with a fiscal advisor, combined with not knowing what the hellhole I’m doing.

We’ll speech astir this later.

Now, let’s get this straight, I inactive don’t cognize what the hellhole I’m doing, and you should presume that immoderate idiosyncratic concern accusation you get from a feline who ranks value nonaccomplishment pills connected the net is suspect.

But I’m a instrumentality of the full robo-investment strategy that helps laymen similar maine make a balanced portfolio, does tax-loss harvesting, re-invests, and rebalances automatically.

Play astatine your ain risk, and each that, yadda yadda…

Health

Strategene

A fewer years agone I mentioned 23 and Me DNA sequencing arsenic a favourite acquisition of that year.

What Strategene does is it runs a akin DNA saliva-type trial done a gene-sequencing bundle and creates a study of each your cistron variations.

Ok, great, truthful what does that mean?

Well, I’m big-time into biohacking and I cognize that I should beryllium sleeping well, getting capable vitamins, etc… but that’s proposal for everybody, isn’t it?

Knowing your cistron representation tells you what your ain assemblage is deficient successful and what you tin bash to supplement and improve.

And I tin archer you, I consciousness and look a batch antithetic than I did past year.

Bear successful mind, Strategene spits retired a decent report, but you’ll 10x the worth from it by talking to an educated doc who specializes successful this benignant of stuff.  I tin supply a notation if you’re interested.

Yoga Tune Up Balls

If you similar a small spot of self-inflicted S&M, these small balls (not the reddish gag balls that spell successful your mouth) bash wonders for releasing choky muscles – particularly successful your feet, glutes, and I.T. bands.

Step connected them and rotation them astir astatine your lasting oregon sitting desk.

It hurts portion you’re doing it, but feels astonishing after.

Philips goLITE BLU

I presumption this airy astir 45 degrees to the broadside of my look and crook it connected successful the greeting for 20 minutes.

What it does is tells your body, “Hey, it’s time time.  Wake up and springiness this antheral immoderate vigor and nutrient from vitamin D.”

It’s a large replacement for caffeine and a implicit hack erstwhile it comes to resetting your timepiece erstwhile you’re jet-lagged.

Rescue Sleep Liquid Melts

Of course, we can’t person a merchandise proposal database from maine that doesn’t impact slumber hacking.

I consciousness similar I’ve got my slumber beauteous dialed in.

But, similar galore of you, sometimes I get up successful the mediate of the nighttime (usually to drain the lizard) and conscionable can’t autumn backmost to sleep.

Pop 1 of these nether your lingua and the magical oils conscionable springiness maine capable of a propulsion to calm down my monkey caput and get backmost to sleep, erstwhile successful a pinch.

Entertainment

Steezy – Online Dance Studio

This happening saved my beingness during lockdowns successful March and April.

You whitethorn not cognize this, but I’ve been progressive successful a thoroughfare creation called “Popping” since I was 19 years old.

You could accidental I’m retired from it these days, but from time-to-time, I inactive similar to chopped it up.

My woman and I got into Steezy during the lockdown and it was a blast.

You tin larn from virtually the champion dancers successful immoderate thoroughfare creation genre from their incredible platform.

Books

Shoe Dog – Phil Knight

Written by the laminitis of Nike, helium takes you done the conception and maturation of the world-famous Nike brand.

It’s a dainty to work (99% definite its ghostwritten) and you’ll emotion each infinitesimal of it.

What I emotion champion astir this publication is that it truly humanizes this thought we person of mega-successful founders.

Just similar galore of you who are figuring things retired on the way, Knight was the same.

Money Master the Game – Tony Robbins

This was my archetypal Tony Robbins book.

Not definite why. I conjecture I had a subconscious blockage due to the fact that my archetypal brushwood with him was from “Shallow Hal”.

I work this publication astatine the close time.

After telling myself for 6-years that “stocks are excessively high” and “I’ll instrumentality a look whenever we spot a dip”… well, the dip happened, truthful I dug in.

I similar the investing doctrine of this book: debased interest scale funds + diverseness + agelong clasp clip = winning.

And since speechmaking Money Master the Game, of course, astir idiosyncratic concern books accidental the aforesaid happening – due to the fact that it’s the astir palmy strategy (for the masses) to date.

But arsenic you tin expect from idiosyncratic similar Tony, helium puts a passionateness into it which, I gotta say, gets you pumped up.

Angel – Jason Calacanis

Angel investing is similar playing the lottery, but with amended odds, if you cognize what you’re doing.

I privation to cognize what I’m doing erstwhile I’m placing large bets, truthful I took my buddy Travis Jamison’s proposal and picked up this book.

Angel is simply a no-bullshit playbook for angel concern from 1 of the champion angels successful the Silicon Valley.

Highly recommended.

Die with Zero – Bill Perkins

Despite my past 2 books being recommendations connected however to masse capable wealth to regularisation the universe, this 1 is astir spending it.

Not connected “stuff”, but the experiences that truly enrich your life.

The main thesis is that wealth has much worth to you erstwhile you’re young.

For example, $10k tin make a first-class imagination vacation for my household skiing and snowboarding successful the French Alps.

But erstwhile I’m 80, that $10k is going to diapers.

Better to walk it present erstwhile its going to make the astir joyousness successful your life, alternatively than horde it each for a time that whitethorn ne'er adjacent come.

Thanks for reading.  For much inspiration, cheque backmost connected the erstwhile years.

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