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My reply falls in the otherwise category.

The Nutribullet blender has let me add one additional billable hour a day. Instead of cooking breakfast I blend it. Half an avocado, 1 raw egg (for the downvotes), protein powder, a little flour (or walnuts), creatine a frozen banana (or carrots), and almond milk. I love them.

I make these twice a day and prepare 3 smaller quick meals. Less dishwashing. Less decision fatigue as to what to eat when I awake.

I also purchased a pull-up bar and skip the gym most days.

A better Wifi router surprisingly helped too. I was previously adamant that my old one was fine since it provided 5X the bandwidth provided by my ISP anyway. I was wrong.

I'd also recommend learning to cut your own hair and stop watching the news so you can concentrate on your tasks and not ruminate about the state of the world.

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I use to visit a barber twice a month to maintain my hair. The total time cost was 5 hrs/month, and a cost of $50/month. Now I shave my head 3 times a week. The total time cost is 8 minutes a shave, or 1.5 hours/month and a cost of $10/month.

The 3.hrs/month and $40/month extra is nice, but I wouldn't recommend it to someone as a productivity hack.

What kind of hair "maintenance" are we talking about? My admittedly low-maintenance hair style takes one visit about every two months and costs ~20USD each. Just wondering whether this is a case of both different hair styles and different local barber pricing, or whether there's more to it.

I had a stylish haircut. It included using both a razor and scissors. The haircut looked significantly worse if it grew 1cm and noticeably worse at .75cm. My hair grows about 1.4cm/month.

I bundle style, hygiene, diet and exercise together in a group called "appearance" and find investments in this category valuable for non-malicious social engineering.

I forgot to factor in combing, washing, and drying. The time saving is closer to 5hrs/month and $45/month. It's kind of crazy how I forgot people have to comb their hair.

Yoo could start enjoying a nice breakfast if you started billing by, say, the week.

I think the raw flour actually has more of a risk of salmonella contamination than the raw egg. And doesn’t it taste gritty? No downvotes here though, that’s an interesting routine.

same here about buying a better router. In my case, was an ASUS RT-ACRH17 AC1700. Best USD70 bucks spent on 2017´s xmas.

Mind sharing which wifi router you have? Did it improve your bandwidth dramatically? Thanks.

Yes, the Netgear AC1750. My DL speed went from 15Mbps to 70Mbps. I honestly thought all these years my ISP was capping me at ~10Mbps. Who knew.

Note some of my recommendations above are in Tim Ferris' book Tools of Titans. Love that guy.

> a little flour

Whoa! Flour in a smoothie?

Yes, but in my creatine blend I also have psyllium powder. It acts as a laxative since raw flour can is a good way to get constipated.

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