Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists

Kevin Kelly

Cool Tools

Cool Tools

Nine years ago I started a free weekly newsletter, called Recomendo, which delivers 6 very short recommendations each week on Sunday morning. Over 123,000 subscribers get recommendations of great tools, fabulous apps, cool stuff we are watching or listening to, and amazing tips. It has one of the highest open rates of any newsletter in the world.

About 25 years ago I launched the website Cool Tools, to review one tool daily. It’s still going strong with new reviews of a cool tool you didn’t know about every day. Some years ago I collected the best tools into a large, oversized, 500-page Whole Earth Catalog-inspired book on paper. The paper book is out of print (used copies can be found) but there is now a downloadable PDF version available.