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Nate O'Brien

Personal finance and lifestyle video essays covering investing, minimalism, and productivity.

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Productivity software9

  • Microsoft Excel

    cited in 2 videospositive about it

    “You can do this with a lot of different apps like mint or bill or even Excel spreadsheets I use Excel spreadsheets to track my budget and to track my expenses and my income and everything else”
    View source at 12:19from January 2022+ 1 more source
  • ClickUp

    first cited July 2022

    “…and then click up is something that I use for task management for for managing employees and everything that maybe I'll talk about in a future video”
    View source at 6:14from July 2022
  • Discord

    first cited July 2022

    “…and then Discord I'm in a couple of different groups there as well”
    View source at 12:12from July 2022
  • Notion

    first cited August 2023

    “I use something like notion they're not sponsoring this but it's just something that I genuinely use”
    View sourcefrom August 2023

Creator tools2

  • Storyblocks

    cited in 4 videosspeaks highly of it

    “I've used Storyblocks for a lot of my content with whether this is b-roll for this video whether this is the background music that I use for most of my videos I get almost all of this a lot of this from Storyblocks”
    View source at 6:27from April 2021+ 3 more sources
  • Twitter

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited July 2022speaks highly of it

    “I know my Twitter feed is entirely just Venture Capital stuff from all my friends and from other people in the space”
    View source at 54:46from May 2023+ 1 more source

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Computers2

  • Mac
    “…but the credit card that I use to buy most electronics actually covers uh any of those electronics if they break including my Mac and some other different appliances like this camera for example if this breaks it's covered by my credit card”
    View source at 1:35from April 2021
  • iMac
    “I had my iMac in here for for a minute but it started to fall over and I didn't want that liability of having like a 5 000 computer in the back of a truck”
    View source at 2:20from May 2021

Office furniture1

  • Walmart plastic folding table

    speaks highly of it

    “Right now this is my setup I have a uh a Walmart table plastic maybe it was thirty dollars I don't know um this is my desk this is my productivity desk set up uh and this legitimately is what I've been doing um and I actually love it”
    View source at 12:34from October 2021

Everything else

Other4

  • WeWork

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited July 2022mixed views on it

    “…so I subscribe to multiple co-working offices I have wework obviously wework has had some big problems they're very national”
    View source at 16:14from February 2023+ 1 more source
  • Jackery 500 Portable Power Station

    mixed views on it

    “It's all connected to this battery back here which is uh a 500 watt Jackery battery a little bit pricey this thing was uh like 500 but it's 500 watts it has really great ports it's super easy to connect to”
    View source at 4:53from May 2021
  • OpenInsider

    first cited March 2022speaks highly of it

    “…so another tool that I use um is a website called open insider and there's a couple of other sites similar to this as well”
    View source at 12:54from March 2022
  • Finviz

    first cited March 2022speaks highly of it

    “…so the first one it's a basic stock screener it's called Finviz they're not sponsoring this like I have no affiliation with them but I genuinely just use this website quite often”
    View source at 11:28from March 2022

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