{"id":34940,"date":"2019-12-08T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=34940"},"modified":"2019-12-06T12:32:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T19:32:18","slug":"marks-gift-guidebeautiful-newsfree-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/marks-gift-guidebeautiful-newsfree-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark&#8217;s gift guide\/Beautiful news\/Free therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/recomendo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cool Tools Gift Guide: Mark\u2019s picks<\/strong><br \/>\nEvery year the editors of Cool Tools curate a number of gift suggestions selected from our website, newsletters, videos, and podcasts. This year, I\u2019m recommending the Bug-a-salt fly shooter, a chimney charcoal starter, Teenage Engineering\u2019s OP-1 synthesizer, and several other things that would make good gifts. Check out all\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/cool-tools-2019-mark\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">my picks here<\/a>. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good news, daily<\/strong><br \/>\nHere is where I go to counter pessimism. Every day, one piece of good news, made graphically beautiful, is served up by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informationisbeautiful.net\/beautifulnews\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Beautiful News Daily<\/a>. Available on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, RSS feed, and the web. It\u2019s like breathing pure oxygen. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free therapy<\/strong><br \/>\nEarlier this week book author Caroline Moss tweeted, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carolinemoss\/status\/1198748131556499456?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">If you go to therapy quote tweet this with the best thing you learned at therapy that way everyone else can get free therapy<\/a>.\u201d The hundreds of replies are filled with excellent advice. Examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t react. Sit with it until you know what you feel. Sit with it.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s ok to not be busy and to not offer to others a reason I do or don\u2019t do each thing.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t beat yourself up for not knowing things that you hadn\u2019t learned yet.<\/li>\n<li>Anxiety causes me to put things off a lot and in group therapy we worked on \u201cthe 15 minute rule\u201d. If something feels impossibly overwhelming I set a timer to work on it for 15 minutes and that takes away that \u201cI\u2019m about to swan dive into a bottomless hole\u201d feeling.<\/li>\n<li>The only things I owe people are straightforwardness and kindness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2014 MF<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compose better emails<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019ve gotten too casual with my email correspondence, and this blog post on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/iridakos.com\/programming\/2019\/06\/26\/composing-better-emails?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">How to write better emails<\/a>\u201d reminded me that I should strive to be more effective and efficient with my communication. All of the tips are useful but the ones I really need to work on are 1) Use specific dates instead of \u201cyesterday\u201d or \u201ctomorrow.\u201d And 2) Be specific on what you request from whom by referring to each recipient explicitly using the @ symbol. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Mac disk space management tool for non-techies<\/strong><br \/>\nI use my\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/daisydiskapp.com\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">DaisyDisk app<\/a>\u00a0($10) at least once a month to keep on top of what\u2019s hogging up my disk space \u2013 usually it\u2019s Dropbox folders that are synced locally that don\u2019t need to be, or really large files I downloaded that I no longer need or apps I tried out that I don\u2019t want anymore. It\u2019s easy to use and understand, and it\u2019s perfect if you\u2019re like me and have a compulsive desire to organize and keep on top of what\u2019s on your computer. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magnetic block set toy<\/strong><br \/>\nMagnetic \u201cblocks\u201d are a toy for constructing things. I keep a big pile of these magnetic tiles around our place for small kids visiting. The outline shape of these tiles are easy for toddlers to grasp, yet still satisfying (for a short while) for older kids. Like Magnatiles, embedded magnets along their edges assist in constructing shapes fast. What you can build is far more limited than what you can do with Lego or Kapla blocks, but these are quick and easy. I have bought many different \u201cbrands\u201d of what are sometimes called Magnaforms; they are all interchangeable. I am partial to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/37RzhOj?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">110 piece Magnetic Block set from Ailuki<\/a>. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recomendo: issue no. 176<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2323],"tags":[2324],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34942,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34940\/revisions\/34942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}