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Your personal assistant is on call, for $50

Is that weird?

Not when you find out what Stuff, formerly known as Delegate, sells. For $50 a month, its mobile app gives you instant access to a network of personal assistants around the United States. They handle tasks such as sending flowers, finding a plumber, or booking the perfect rental home for a family ski vacation. You communicate with them via Stuff’s app — which feels similar to text messaging.

People like Ain, who runs a 12,000-person company, have their own personal assistants on payroll; his has been working alongside him for 25 years. “If she found out I was using Stuff, she’d come to my house and punch me in the nose,” he says.

So Stuff is a bit like Uber, Zipcar, or Turo — disruptive startups that give you access to a nice set of wheels at a much lower price than buying them outright. “It democratizes something that wasn’t really readily available,” Ain says.

Stuff CEO Ohad Elhelo likes to say that the company’s users get access to their own “chief of Stuff.” Other investors in the company’s latest funding round, announced last week, include Joshua Boger, the former CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and real estate developer Douglass Karp.

Elhelo is a former intelligence officer in the Israeli military who came to Boston to earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Brandeis University. While he was there, he started a nonprofit called Our Generation Speaks, which provided business training and mentorship to Israeli and Palestinian entrepreneurs.

At the time, Elhelo says, “I was extremely overwhelmed.” So he signed up for a service from Zirtual, an Ohio company that assigned him a personal assistant. “I worked with her for three years, and saw how sticky their service was,” he says. “But I also saw the shortcomings. She was

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Personal YouTube Music Playlists Now Available Via Google Assistant

To make the Google Play Music users transition smoother, Google has added a new feature to the Google Assistant that lets you play your personal YouTube Music playlists on Android.

Google Play Music has already bid adieu to many regions. And is going to stop working for all the users around the world this month. YouTube Music is the chosen one to carry on Play Music’s legacy.

The Mountain View giant has done all it can to make this transition from Play Music to YouTube Music as smooth as possible. In fact, Play Music subscription that goes beyond September will be converted to Play Store credits.

A tool was also provided by Google to help the Play Music users transfer their data over to the YouTube Music app. For the unaware, we have recently reported that the Google Play Music has already vanished for some on Windows OS.

However, in process of making YouTube Music compatible with its other apps, Google is making some efforts. Because, as per 9to5Google, Google Assistant is now equipped with one more feature supporting YouTube Music.

Apparently, users will be able to ask Google Assistant to play their personalized and personally curated YouTube Music playlists. Personal playlists are maintained and created by the users themselves.

This common task was not supported earlier for YouTube Music

Interestingly, this simple task of being able to play personal playlists from YouTube Music was not supported by Google Assistant. And we know YouTube Music is there for quite a while now.

So, take this as a step to make Google Assistant, as capable and featureful for performing YouTube Music related tasks. There are multiple reports that highlight that Google Assistant on Android is working to play personal YouTube Music playlists.

You simply need to say: “Hey Google, play X

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Trump’s Personal Assistant Tests Positive for COVID-19

One of Donald Trump’s aides has also tested positive for COVID-19.

It was confirmed that Nicholas Luna caught the virus a little more than 24 hours after Trump was hospitalized at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bloomberg reports. As one of Trump’s “body men,” Luna runs Oval Office operations for the White House, handles Trump’s papers and speech texts, and accompanies Trump on his trips—like to the debate in Cleveland—putting Luna on board Air Force One during the Minnesota trip where advisor Hope Hicks was first showing symptoms.

Trump and the first lady announced on Friday that they had tested positive for the virus, and now, it’s been confirmed that a total of 15 people have caught COVID: Trump, Melania Trump, and Hicks; Trump’s campaign manager Bill Stepien; the Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel; Utah Sen. Mike Lee, North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson; former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie; former White House adviser Kellyanne Conway; three White House reporters, one White House staffer; and Rev. John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame University.

Many suspect that Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination ceremony at the White House may be the social event where many of the aforementioned contracted the virus, as very few attendees wore face coverings. Joe Biden has since tested negative for coronavirus, but because the illness has a 14-day incubation period, this doesn’t mean he’s out of the woods just yet.

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Trump’s personal assistant tests positive for coronavirus

Nick Luna, one of President TrumpDonald John TrumpJaime Harrison debates Graham behind plexiglass shield Doctors, White House staff offer conflicting messages on president’s health Trump given second dose of Remdesivir ‘without complication’, ‘not yet out of the woods’, Conley says MORE’s personal assistants, is the latest White house aide to receive a positive coronavirus diagnosis, Bloomberg reports.

The new outlet noted that Luna works closely with Trump and serves as one of the president’s “body men.”

The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment on the aide’s reported diagnosis, which comes several days after Trump and first lady Melania TrumpMelania TrumpJaime Harrison debates Graham behind plexiglass shield Doctors, White House staff offer conflicting messages on president’s health Trump given second dose of Remdesivir ‘without complication’, ‘not yet out of the woods’, Conley says MORE were confirmed to have tested positive for coronavirus.

The first couple’s diagnosis was announced shortly after it was discovered White House adviser Hope HicksHope Charlotte HicksDoctors, White House staff offer conflicting messages on president’s health Trump given second dose of Remdesivir ‘without complication’, ‘not yet out of the woods’, Conley says Barr will not quarantine following potential exposure to COVID-19 MORE had also tested positive for the illness. In the days since, a number of top Republicans have also tested positive for the coronavirus.

Republican Sens. Mike LeeMichael (Mike) Shumway LeeJaime Harrison debates Graham behind plexiglass shield Doctors, White House staff offer conflicting messages on president’s health Trump given second dose of Remdesivir ‘without complication’, ‘not yet out of the woods’, Conley says MORE (Utah), Thom TillisThomas (Thom) Roland TillisJaime Harrison debates Graham behind plexiglass shield Doctors, White House staff offer conflicting messages on president’s health Trump given second dose of Remdesivir ‘without complication’, ‘not yet out

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In the tradeoff between saving money or time, most of us choose money. Here’s why that’s a flawed perspective, according to an assistant professor at Harvard Business School.

a group of people sitting at a table: You can assign a value to some of your time. Thomas Barwick/Getty Images

Ashley Whillans is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School and a leading scholar in time and happiness. The following is an excerpt from her book, “Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life.”
In it, she shares how individuals of all ages, educations, and incomes typically choose money when it comes to the tradeoff between money and time.
When we do this, Whillans explains we give up things that can benefit us in the long run, including happiness, time, and efficiency.
She reminds us to savor daily experiences, outsource for things we don’t like to do, take vacations, socialize, and take care of ourselves to better value our time as a resource.
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The income equivalent of happiness gains, I like to refer to as happiness dollars. I define happiness dollars as the income equivalent of the amount of happiness produced by a time-related choice. For example, the happiness you’d gain from a $10,000 raise is equivalent to a decision to use your time in a time-affluent way. You will feel as happy by making that choice as you would by gaining a certain amount of income.

diagram: "Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life," By Ashley Whillans. Courtesy of Harvard Business Review

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“Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life,” By Ashley Whillans. Courtesy of Harvard Business Review

To put it into concrete terms, if someone makes $50,000 and receives a $10,000 raise, research suggests that their happiness will, on average, increase by about 0.5 points on a 10-point happiness scale.

Similarly, starting to pay to outsource our most-disliked tasks increases happiness by about 0.5 points on a 10-point happiness scale. By comparing these two numbers, I

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