My First Million: One Question Friday: What Random Things Are You Into Right Now?

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Hey, Sam and Sean.

This is Colby from Woodbridge, Virginia.

It seems like you guys are always finding cool stuff, whether that's media or cool tools.

So anyway, my question is, what have you been into recently?

Thanks.

Okay.

So the question of the one question Friday we got was basically around what are just

random.

We seem to be into really random things.

What are some of these random things that we're really into right now?

Stuff that we really like.

It could be a podcast.

It could be a video.

It could be a book.

It could be a podcast app or a tool.

Anything like that.

What are we into?

It's kind of like our info diet or the tools in our tool belt that we really like right

now.

So Sam, what do you got?

All right.

I'll rat off all three of mine because they're all related.

So the first one, both of these might sound, all three might sound a little obvious, but

hear me out.

So YouTube Premium.

Are you a subscriber to YouTube Premium?

I am a longtime YouTube Premium subscriber.

Most people aren't.

And so I actually unsubscribed from Spotify, so I don't use paid Spotify anymore.

I only use YouTube and the reason being is A, I watch all my TV on there, but B, you

can listen to any music and they make playlist for you and then you can lock your phone and

put it in your pocket and you can listen to music, playlist, and it's way better than Spotify

because they have live versions and like unreleased versions and like illegal stuff.

You know, like things that were like, you know, aren't copyrighted, things like that.

So I like YouTube Premium.

The second one.

Do you ever listen to Audible?

I am not an audio book guy.

I always found it boring and a little slow.

I kind of tuned it out.

So there's this thing called Audible Original.

So first of all, there's Audible Plus, which is if you pay for it, you get all these free

audio books.

So I'm always clicking around, but they've got some that are as short as 30 minutes.

So like short stories or like a short like class, but then they have Audible Originals

and they'll do like courses.

Remember YouTube or iTunes University?

It's almost like that.

So they like put like whole like Stanford lectures.

So I just click on one of the lectures and listen for a few minutes on Audible Originals

or they do this other thing where they have these like huge productions where it's an

audio book, but there's like famous actors and multiple of them.

So it's almost like a play or a movie, but Audible only and it's free if you're a subscriber.

So I like that.

And the last thing all related, have you ever used the app Libby?

Have you heard of Libby?

Never heard of this.

Do you have a library card?

No.

Okay.

So if you go to your local library and you get a card, which is free, you can enter in

your library card to this app called Libby and you could access unlimited amounts of

ebooks and audio books.

So long as the library in your town has it.

Oh, only from that one library?

No, no, no, no, from like, it's like everything.

Like anything you can imagine, it's likely there.

Yeah.

But listen, there's one major downside, which is some things like the popular titles, they'll

like, are they're only allocated?

I don't know how they do this.

They're only allocated a certain amount, like 10 copies.

So like there's this book called Catch Me If You Can that I wanted to read and it was

pretty popular.

So I had to click request hold and then like I got it like three days later.

So you just request like you want like 10, 20, 30, 50 things and like, you know, each

thing is released like every couple of days.

And so it's not always instantaneous, but a lot of times it is, but it's called Libby,

free audio books and free ebooks.

It's pretty sick.

That's kind of amazing.

I had never heard of that.

And I feel like nobody knows about that.

So they're not going to be checked out when I, when I go do it, or at least where I'm

from.

Okay.

So I'm going to give you a few things that I'm really into right now.

I'm just going to go quick cause none of these are super revolutionary, but they're just

things I like.

So sending voice notes and I message, I have, I went from, I never sent a voice note and

I was like, why is this feature even here?

And I heard that people in China and Asia love to do it cause it's slow to type there.

I think because now I'm a dad, I'm always just like on the go or I'm not by my computer

all the time.

I can't, I'm holding a kid in one arm and I'm just trying to type in the other.

I have gone all in on, on voice notes.

It's basically how I run my business now as I'm just sending voice notes all day to my

team.

Dude, I hate voice notes.

I hate them.

Well, you hate receiving them.

I hate receiving them.

So if we're, if you and I are in friend mode, I'm not listening to one.

If you and I are in work mode, well, no, not even you or me.

If me and an employee are in work mode, I expect they're going to listen to mine if I'm the

boss.

And so I get why that's cool.

But if we're peers and you send me one, I just automatically default to, uh-uh.

Yeah.

Uh-uh, that's the response.

It's definitely an FU to the receiver.

It's like, you know, sit here and listen to me talk slowly and ramble for a minute, but

like, hey, that's kind of what this podcast is too.

So you know, whatever.

All right.

My second one.

Um, this app that's called, I think it's called compounding.

I think you use this to compound or compounding.

You have this app?

The personal finance one?

Yeah.

It's basically just one app that lets you plug in basic metrics.

Like, uh, if you started with a hundred grand and it's compounding at a 6% rate in 10 years,

it'll be here.

15 years, it'll be here.

25 years, it'll be here.

And the reason I do this is not because every day I need to run a compounding interest calculation,

but every day I should just as a reminder of the power of simple compounding.

I think Warren Buffett has said, you know, compounding, uh, interest is the eighth wonder

of the world or something like that, 100% true.

And I think it is very, like compounding interest basically breaks your brain.

It's very hard to like foresee how a, a simple change between 5% or 8% will matter over

a 10 year or 15 year period, but it matters in a big way.

Yeah.

It's really fun.

Cause I just have a compound interest one.

Yeah.

This is, that's all it does.

Okay.

But it's simple.

And it's my reminder that Sloan Steady wins the race because I'm pretty ADD when it comes

to like investments, ideas, things like that.

So I need to remind myself of the power of compounding interest over a long term.

Okay.

Related.

There's a Twitter account that you should follow that everybody I think should follow

called I never give Twitter accounts this kind of shine because we do got that influence.

It's just going to blow them up, but this person deserves it.

Their name is 10 K diver.

Have you ever seen this account?

Love them.

Love 10 K diver is base is just basic, uh, personal finance.

So it's just basic or not personal finance, basic financial knowledge.

So it'll be like, Hey, if you're ever looking at a company, a cup of coffee and sit down

because this Sunday we're talking about balance sheets, how to look at them, what to learn

and blah, blah.

And he just breaks it down so simply.

So beautifully every like simple finance finance concept is being broken down by this person.

They've shot up.

They have like 250,000 followers now.

And after this, they'll have at least 250,000 followers, I believe.

And so that this account is to me, one of my favorite high signal things.

I normally hate Twitter threads.

I love this guy's Twitter threads.

I find a lot of benefit in just re reviewing the basics or learning the basics for the

first time of something that I didn't really understand or know.

So 10 K divers, my next one, there's a billion websites on Chrome, but most people are using

it ineffectively.

Here's the five best plugins that you need to be using right now.

Shout out to that guy.

Jack, did you see he did a mock thread on these?

He goes, there are 26 letters in the alphabet, but most people don't know how to use them.

Here's my favorite letters and how to use them.

Hey, a is an awesome letter.

I sent it to him right when he did it.

I go, this is amazing.

That thread did over a hundred thousand, a hundred thousand likes, maybe 200,000.

That's hilarious.

All right.

Second thing, the next one is, I talked about this before, the trigger point massage ball.

So when we were at camp MFM, Mike, I had like an Achilles problem.

You were like, Hey, you need to use this Theraga and to loosen it up.

And this other guy was like, yo, use this.

He threw me like a lacrosse ball.

Yeah.

And he's like, use this to roll out your calf.

And I did.

And like, I went from, I wasn't going to be able to play.

It's like I was able to play, you know, like just because that thing loosened it up so well.

And I forgot to give it back to the guy.

So I ended up bringing this lacrosse ball home and two things happened.

One, start playing lacrosse.

I fucking love.

No, I love just having a ball in my hand at all times, like just walking through the

airport.

I was just bouncing it around.

Dude, just I'm like a little child having a ball just makes my life 15% better.

I love fiddling with like, you know, a lacrosse ball.

It's amazing.

And so I, I had it through the airport, the airplane, I haven't at home all the time now

I'm playing with this thing.

And I'm also using it for these trigger point massages for this, like, you know, a fashion

release or whatever they call it.

So this, this thing that helps you feel more limber and loose.

Um, okay.

I have another fitness related one that sounds gross, but for somebody out there, this might

be helpful.

Goat milk.

You ever drink goat milk?

Not much.

I eat a lot of that goat cheese, but no, goat milk kind of has grossed me out.

Oh.

Goat cheese.

The creme de la creme.

We all know that.

The goat milk, most people are a little bit grossed out about it, or they just don't know

about it.

I got put onto this by my trainer.

He's like, Hey, if you want to put something in your, your smoothies or shakes, protein

shakes or whatever, uh, instead of using normal milk, use goat milk.

For most adults, you're able to digest goat milk better.

And I think also like the enzymes in goat milk don't, um, like block the protein ends.

So if you're drinking a protein shake and you drink normal, like, like lactose based

milk, uh, I think there's like some inhibition where it doesn't like work as well, but tastes

better, but it doesn't work as well.

So goat milk has been a little trick.

And my last fitness one, walking backwards, which is from the, uh, the knees over toes

guy playbook, uh, I have had knee problems in both knees.

I've torn my MCL on both sides.

I've dislocated both knee caps before.

Uh, I do not have good knees in general and I'm trying to work on that.

And one of the things that's helped me feel better and like, you know, run better, all

the stuff is doing, you know, what do they call it?

Like regression movements, basically going in the opposite way that you normally go.

So let's say you always sit hunched over at a computer, then you need to do specific exercise

going in the opposite direction to sort of like, you know, counterbalance this other

movement you've been habituated to.

Most of us only run and walk forward.

So back pedaling is an amazing way to sort of like strengthen and, uh, push blood flow

into the parts of your body that need it.

And I feel better doing like this, like five minute backwards walk every single day.

So, uh, look as goofy as hell, walking around the neighborhood backwards, but it's a thing

that I'm doing that I enjoy right now.

Chad Purry, you're talking about the cross balls and walking backwards.

Chucking goat milk.

Yeah.

God damn.

Okay.

Chaddington.

That's weird.

Yeah.

First name's Sean middle name Tucker.

I'm here.

All right.

Well, that's one, one question Friday.

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