Friends news: 21 of my favorite home gear picks 🏡

Published about 2 years ago • 3 min read

21 of my FAVORITE home gear picks 🏡

Hello [FIRST NAME GOES HERE], from your friend Nick in Austin, Texas.

In this issue: 100 things that can improve your life, 48 real tasks that I've assigned to my virtual assistants last week, 21 things around my home that I love, 3 great songs that I've been listening to, plus some good quotes and an email from Elon Musk.

Why you’re getting this: I'm Nick Gray and this is my Friends Newsletter. I send this to people I’ve met recently, my contacts on LinkedIn, and friends I want to keep in touch with. You can un-subscríbe and I won’t be offended.

Nick with a green top and orange pants holding peace signs up
I was waiting for a hamburger and this punk teenager with his girlfriend looks at me and he says, “That’s cool how you’re dressed like a carrot.“ 🥕

My Home Gear List

These are the 21 things around my home that I love the most. You'll see my favorite pillow, weighted blanket, air purifier, robot vacuum, toiletries, coffee gear, and lots more.

​Home Gear: The Best Stuff I Use Every Day (2022)​

Nick with a ton of product icons and text that says HOME GEAR LIST 2022
All my favorite stuff at home!
  1. Fuji Instax Square Camera
  2. Levoit Air Purifier
  3. Roborock S4 Vacuum
  4. Youdgee Personal Massager
  5. Buckwheat Pillow
  6. Weighted Blanket

... continued on my blog: Home Gear: The Best Stuff I Use Every Day (2022)​

red arrow pointing at a Fuji camera and pics of my friends on the fridge
Fuji Instax Cam: $119.95.... Wall of friend photos: PRICELESS

Random Links

🍎 100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying​

I don't agree with all of these. But a lot of them are pretty interesting and easy.

✨ Geckoboard: Professional KPI Dashboards​

"Connect your data from a choice of over 80 integrations. Build a real-time dashboard in minutes." Neat tool that reader Bryce Vielguth introduced me to (in a roundabout way).

🔉 Mellow song: Cold War (Stripped) by Cautious Clay on Spotify, on YouTube​

🔉 Spiritual song: Love by FACESOUL on Spotify, on YouTube​

🔉 Dance song: 1night by Daddy NAT on Spotify, on YouTube​

How to Use a Virtual Assistant: 48 Real Tasks

I recently hired two full-time virtual assistants… which is ironic because I don’t even have a job.

But! I love virtual assistants!! I can’t imagine NOT having one now.

A lot of my friends want to know how to use a virtual assistant.

They ask me: What do your assistants do all day? And what do YOU do all day?

Nick standing next to 2 clipboards with lists of tasks his VAs do for him
Click the image to read my article about what my VAs do all day. Or at least what they did last week.

Here’s a list of tasks that my virtual assistants did last week. You’ll see that a majority of the tasks are marketing- and website-related.

My Virtual Assistant Tasks, a list of items
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Continue reading the article on my blog:

How to Use a Virtual Assistant: 48 Real Tasks That I Assigned Last Week​

Elon Musk Email to All Employees

I thought this email was really fascinating. Elon Musk sent this to all Tesla employees on October 4, 2021:

via @TechEmails, as first reported by Lora Kolodny for CNBC

Quotes

"To avoid straining your eyes when you're continuously working, follow the 20-20-20 rule. After 20 minutes of work, look at something 20 feet away, then spend 20 years in the forest." — via @jacques_lakan

Years later, this Tweet below is still good and accurate 🤣

ME: What did you have for breakfast EVERY TECH PERSON
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Testimonial About My Party Book

A woman in Washington, DC recently read the manuscript for my book about how to host a 2-Hour Cocktail Party. Then she hosted her own version of my party:

All these people work in politics or are politics-adjacent, so I gave them the black bar treatment for privacy just to be safe!

This is what she told me afterwards:

"I want to say a huge huge THANK YOU. Hosting the party was such a great experience, and as an avid how-to / self help reader it's incredibly rare to come across a book that works through your anxieties, makes a case and is actionable. The party that I hosted from your book was a big success. At some point or another each attendee pulled me aside to say how much they were enjoying themselves. I even had two of the most introverted folks there ask me if I could invite them to the next one because it was unlike anything they've gone to."

​My book about exactly how to host an easy, simple cocktail party will help you build big relationships. It should be available for sale in late May 2022. It is currently going through the final design process with my publisher.

I will send you an email when it is ready for preorder! I AM SUPER EXCITED and haven't been this excited about something since the early, early days of Museum Hack.

The End

Thanks for reading my Friends Newsletter.

I really enjoyed writing these two new articles about the home gear list and the virtual assistant tasks. I hope they added some value for you!!! To give you new ideas for cool home gadgets, or to give you some tasks that maybe you can delegate.

Have a great week.

🤠 Nick Gray

​p.s. Here's the About Me on my website if you forgot who I am. My email robot thinks that we met [HOWWEMET GOES HERE].

An investor, entrepreneur, and author of The 2-Hour Cocktail Party. I started and sold two successful companies: Flight Display Systems and Museum Hack. Join 20,000 CEOs, investors, and founders and receive business tips, productivity tools, and other resources from me.

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