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Tim O'Hearn

Tim O'Hearn

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Products & Reviews

Best Pull-Up Bar for Wide Doorways

Tim January 30, 2022 Athletics, Products & Reviews No Comments
Best Pull-Up Bar for Wide Doorways

During the pandemic, I’ve been spending a lot of time at home. Many gyms have temporarily closed, and the gym I visited for years in downtown Chicago disappeared without a trace. There’s been a rush to construct at-home gyms of

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Best At-Home Gym Equipment for Runners

Tim January 20, 2022 Athletics, Products & Reviews No Comments
Best At-Home Gym Equipment for Runners

We’re entering year two of the pandemic and I’m in the best shape of my life. As soon as I realized that this thing was for real, I started budgeting and building my home gym. The results have been great,

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Hands on with the RAKwireless Helium Developer Kit

Tim June 20, 2021 Crypto, Products & Reviews No Comments
Hands on with the RAKwireless Helium Developer Kit

I recently acquired a new product from RAKwireless: the Helium Developer Kit. While RAK is perhaps best known for being the first manufacturing partner of Helium hotspots, the company has been a pioneer in the IoT space, creating the popular

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How to Remove Small Hairs After a Haircut

Tim January 31, 2021 Products & Reviews No Comments
How to Remove Small Hairs After a Haircut

The haircut has always been a slightly awkward, stressful ritual that has rarely resulted in a satisfactory result. In early 2020, I received a hilariously bad $59 haircut from a salon in my neighborhood. From that point forward, I decided

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Rewardful Provides the Perfect Stripe Affiliate Integration

Tim January 20, 2021 Entrepreneurship, Products & Reviews No Comments
Rewardful Provides the Perfect Stripe Affiliate Integration

Over the years, I’ve been involved with a few SaaS products and other businesses that use Stripe for billing. These were never wildly successful enterprises, but that’s the truth for most of us trying to hustle online. We’re happy with

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The Ultimate High-End NYC Bar Crawl

Tim January 15, 2021 Products & Reviews No Comments
The Ultimate High-End NYC Bar Crawl

Introduction Back in the summer of 2018, I had quit my job and was waiting out an employer-mandated non-compete period. I did a lot of fun stuff, from picking up new hobbies to spending time with old friends to traveling

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My 3 Most Worthwhile Purchases of 2020

Tim January 6, 2021 Products & Reviews 1 Comment

I recently saw a blog post from my buddy Rhett Reisman which struck me as a great idea. Rhett wrote about his favorite purchases of 2020. I’ve spent a lot of money while online shopping, especially during the pandemic. Though

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I Wore Nothing Other Than Birddogs for 6 Months

Tim September 12, 2020 Products & Reviews No Comments
I Wore Nothing Other Than Birddogs for 6 Months

Editing note: It’s now been over a year with wearing the shorts every day. Except, not always for the full day. Through the winter, I did put on pants a few times, I skied almost 20 days, and I’ve started

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Adidas Ultraboost 19 shoes are overrated

Tim January 27, 2020 Products & Reviews, Running No Comments
Adidas Ultraboost 19 shoes are overrated

Edit: A lot of time has passed since I first wrote this review. Adidas dramatically improved the shoe in future iterations (see Ultraboost 21), fixing the majority of my specific complaints. While it still isn’t a perfect running shoe, it’s

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Keiser M3 Indoor Cycle Review

Tim January 27, 2019 Products & Reviews No Comments
Keiser M3 Indoor Cycle Review

18 months later: I never expected we’d get to a point where the exercise bike has become one of the most valuable possessions one can have. Prices have skyrocketed, even for refurbished bikes. Personally, I rented an M3 for a few

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Recent Posts

  • Skip the Lead-in to Alpe du Zwift February 17, 2022
  • Best Pull-Up Bar for Wide Doorways January 30, 2022
  • I Got My Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards Graded! January 20, 2022
  • Best At-Home Gym Equipment for Runners January 20, 2022
  • I Sent My Childhood Pokemon Collection to PSA January 20, 2022
  • Blueprint for Newberry Park’s Perfect Track Season December 21, 2021
  • Fall 2021 NCAA DI XC Championship Recap November 25, 2021
  • Best Knife to Carry While Running November 5, 2021
  • How to Prepare for PoCV11 November 3, 2021
  • Is the 1-of-1266 Pontiac Solstice Coupe Actually Collectible? September 6, 2021

My Most Recent Books

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
liked it
Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
by William Poundstone
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
really liked it
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
by Antony C. Sutton
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
it was ok
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
by Emanuel Derman
Slaughterhouse-Five
it was amazing
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
liked it
The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
by Benjamin Wallace
Pulphead
liked it
Pulphead
by John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
really liked it
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
by Taylor Larimore

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