{"id":37005,"date":"2020-09-30T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=37005"},"modified":"2020-10-20T14:49:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T21:49:01","slug":"whats-in-my-bag-douglas-rushkoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-bag-douglas-rushkoff\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in my bag? \u2014 Douglas Rushkoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sign up here<\/i><\/a>\u00a0to get\u00a0What\u2019s in my bag?\u00a0a week early in your inbox.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n

Douglas Rushkoff<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of\u00a0Team Human<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Present Shock<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus<\/em><\/a>, and a bunch of other books on media and society. He\u2019s host of the\u00a0Team Human podcast<\/a>, and currently adapting some of his novels to TV.<\/p>\n

About the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

I got that backpack for around $10 on sale at the\u00a0Vans store\u00a0<\/a>when I was getting my daughter some sneakers. She picked it out. I figured it would break pretty fast at that price, but it\u2019s lasted 5 years and been around the world. It works because it\u2019s super light, has lots of easy-to-find compartments, and the zippers haven\u2019t failed.<\/p>\n

What’s inside the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

Legal pad and\u00a0<\/strong>Paper Mate InkJoy Gel Pen .5mm<\/strong><\/a>
\nI always wanted to be a Moleskine person but I wrote my first book proposal on a legal pad and somehow they bring me luck. 14″ is enough for a good handwritten paragraph, a chapter outline, 45 minutes of interview questions\u2026the perfect scribal unit. My pen of choice changed from the Fischer Space Pen (the pressurized, any-direction ink cartridge was perfect for planes) to the Paper Mate InkJoy, which writes like a real ink pen and not some ballpoint. No pressure required, and very fast drying. Very sensual writing, but cheap \u2014 and I lose pens a lot.<\/p>\n

Ricola Original Natural Herb Cough Drops<\/strong><\/a>
\nNot only am I a friend and fan of Ramona Pringle, who played the Ricola girl on the TV ad, but I\u2019m dependent on Ricola for speaking gigs. In Covid times, I\u2019m doing upwards of 6 hours of talks and webinars a day, so I just keep a handful in my bag. I now get the huge packs at Costco. No one has improved on the original flavor, shape, herbal blend, or wrapper.<\/p>\n

NuGo Dark Chocolate Pretzel Vegan Protein Bar<\/strong><\/a>
\nI\u2019ve been a bar person since PowerBar was the only option. NuGo are a real family business making high quality vegan snacks. Their dark chocolate pretzel is my emergency meal replacement on trips or whenever I get fatigued or strung out. Salty sweet. And not soy.<\/p>\n

Puregear Wireless In-Ear Earbuds with Mic<\/strong><\/a>
\nI walked into a Radio Shack a couple of summers ago when the whole chain was going out of business, and picked up these ear buds for around $25. I suppose they\u2019re basically the same as Apple ones except they don\u2019t charge automatically in their box. But I like having a bit of a wire so they can hang on my neck and not get lost. They\u2019re fine for hands-free calling but I don\u2019t listen to music in any ears-only ways. Only speakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s in my bag? issue #69<\/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":[2303],"tags":[1553],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37005"}],"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=37005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37195,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37005\/revisions\/37195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}