A coworking space ($300/mo), or someplace which isn’t your own house/bedroom, to have a better separation of work and life
A second monitor! Doubling my screen real estate increased my productivity by a (wild guess) 10%, easily an incredible investment. If you have a laptop, I’d recommend this portable second monitor ($250): https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B087792CQT
Books! Ramit Sethi has an excellent heuristic goes like “If you’re thinking about buying a book, just buy it”. Don’t worry about finishing (or even starting!) every book you buy, just increase your own access to them to increase your expected number of book content consumed.
UK/European folks—if you’re looking for a second monitor, I recommend you buy one of these. They usually have a discount code, which makes them some of the best value on the market.
The only thing to keep in mind is that they eat up your battery pretty fast, which may not be ideal if you plan to use them for long stretches away from a plug socket.
A coworking space ($300/mo), or someplace which isn’t your own house/bedroom, to have a better separation of work and life
A second monitor! Doubling my screen real estate increased my productivity by a (wild guess) 10%, easily an incredible investment. If you have a laptop, I’d recommend this portable second monitor ($250): https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B087792CQT
Books! Ramit Sethi has an excellent heuristic goes like “If you’re thinking about buying a book, just buy it”. Don’t worry about finishing (or even starting!) every book you buy, just increase your own access to them to increase your expected number of book content consumed.
A quality microphone (eg this $100 Blue Yeti mic: https://www.amazon.com/Recording-Streaming-Patterns-Headphone-Adjustable/dp/B00N1YPXW2) if you spend more than a couple hours a week on video calls. I think 5% of why I got promoted at my last job was due to quality communication attributable to me having a streaming-tier microphone. See also: https://www.benkuhn.net/vc/
UK/European folks—if you’re looking for a second monitor, I recommend you buy one of these. They usually have a discount code, which makes them some of the best value on the market.
The only thing to keep in mind is that they eat up your battery pretty fast, which may not be ideal if you plan to use them for long stretches away from a plug socket.