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Nate O'Brien

Nate O'Brien

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

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Productivity software9

  • 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
  • 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
  • PowerPoint

    first cited August 2022

    i'm just going to be sitting here with this powerpoint and hopefully you you don't hate that
    View source at 0:40from August 2022
  • Signal

    strongly positive

    signal is a messaging app that i use uh pretty often it's one of my favorites because of the security on it
    View source at 5:24from July 2022
  • slack i use for a couple businesses that i'm a part of that i need to just uh be tied in with
    View source at 5:38from July 2022
  • Apple Notes

    positive

    so going from the top here i have my notes uh what i have ideas video checklists uh just different tasks that i need to do for the week i use this most often on my phone
    View source at 4:58from July 2022
  • Telegram

    Mixed — said both good and bad

    telegram another thing just for messaging there's so many different messaging apps it's kind of annoying but i need all of them for business and for work and for other things
    View source at 11:58from July 2022
  • 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

Creator tools2

  • Storyblocks

    cited in 3 videos · strongly positive

    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
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  • Twitter

    cited in 2 videos · strongly positive

    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
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Computers1

  • 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

  • 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

Other4

  • WeWork

    cited in 2 videos · Mixed — said both good and bad

    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
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  • Jackery 500 Portable Power Station

    Mixed — said both good and bad

    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

    strongly positive

    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

    strongly positive

    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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