What's in my NOW? — Kevin Beach

issue #167

I am an account manager at Figma, a collaborative interface design tool. I had a blog for a while called Beach Bi-Weekly and love going down internet rabbit holes. I grew up in Davidson, North Carolina (go Steph Curry)! and live in San Francisco with my wife and our golden retriever. — Kevin Beach

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PHYSICAL

• Gymnastic rings. In the pandemic I built quite a nice outdoor gym in my side yard. The best purchase by far are my gymnastic rings, which I hung from the bars of my fire escape. I primarily do hangs, pull-ups and skin the cat’s. The rings are better than a pull-up bar because the instability engages your core and allows for a more free range of motion.

• Vitamix e310 is the Cadillac of blenders. When my wife and I were making smoothies every day we decided to spring for this blender. All the Vitamix’s are top-notch, and we got this one on an amazon deal. We do smoothies, soups and nut butters in our Vitamix.

• Dryer balls, accelerate drying time by absorbing moisture and help prevent static on your clothes. As a bonus, I used 3 of them to start learning how to juggle 🙂.

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DIGITAL

• Conan needs a friend podcast. A few months ago I realized most of my podcasts were all about self-improvement and I was in need of a laugh. Conan needs a friend is the salve I needed. I never watched Conan during his late night days and the longer unscripted format works better for his improv genius. I recommend listening to Bill Burr or Taylor Tomlinson.

• Book I'm reading - Who makes the NBA? A writer + data scientist announced on X, he was writing a book in 30 days about the NBA. How did he do it? Leveraging AI for all of the data analysis, graphs and illustrations. He did the writing and posted his daily progress on X. This is not a C- book written by ChatGPT, the writer is a former NYT bestseller leveraging AI to write a book in 30 days that he said would previously have taken him 1-2 years to complete.

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INVISIBLE

• Astronaut Jim Lovell said he looked back at the earth from space and realized, you don’t go to heaven when you die. You go to heaven when you’re born.

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What’s in your NOW?

We want to know what’s in your now — a list of 6 things that are significant to you now — 3 physical, 2 digital and 1 invisible. 

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