{"id":40764,"date":"2023-01-15T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=40764"},"modified":"2023-01-12T12:28:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:28:53","slug":"guiding-principles-peculiar-film-best-coffee-creamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/guiding-principles-peculiar-film-best-coffee-creamer\/","title":{"rendered":"Guiding principles\/Peculiar film\/Best coffee creamer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Uncover your guiding principles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/programs.clearerthinking.org\/uncover_your_guiding_principles.html\">new tool by the Clearer Thinking team<\/a>&nbsp;helped me discover and build a list of my own guiding principles. Your principles are what guides you when making decisions and if you know what they are, you can have less anxiety surrounding decisions and make them faster. Here are a few questions and principles that influence my decisions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Choose life-expanding choices over comfort.<\/li><li>Ask yourself how this serves your growth.<\/li><li>Can I accept the consequences of this choice? If I can, that is true freedom.<\/li><li>What would my fully-actualized self do?<\/li><li>When in doubt, opt for the natural path over the forced path.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 CD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Peculiar, charming film<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is an uplifting, charming film that should not work, but does. It is a live-action film with a talking sea shell as the hero. Marcel-the-shell overcomes disabilities (he is just a sea shell!) to reunite his lost family. It\u2019s adorable, strange, inventive, weird, and heartwarming.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5EPWNVcXbHU\">Marcel the Shell with Shoes On<\/a>&nbsp;began real life as a YouTube short that went viral, and was turned into a feature film with expert stop-motion effects. It\u2019s so odd, but joyful, you won\u2019t forget it. Available for rental ($6) on all the commercial video streams. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Best coffee creamer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I usually like my espresso black, but lately I\u2019ve been adding&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/LOnk\">Peak evaporated full cream milk<\/a>. Unlike most canned evaporated milk, which has added sugar and thickeners, Peak contains nothing but milk, minus a lot of the water. It tastes delicious, more so than half and half, and a little amount is all I need to lighten my coffee.&nbsp; \u2014 MF<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Personal annual report<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than making new year\u2019s resolutions, I answered these seven pairs of questions, structured as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/fsmisc.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/2022+AR.pdf\">Personal Annual Report<\/a>\u201d in this downloadable PDF created by Shane Parrish at Farnam Street. For instance, \u201cWhat can I do this year that will leave me in a better position for next year?\u201d The quick exercise is worth doing once a year.&nbsp; \u2014 KK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Museum of Failure<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Museum of Failure is a collection of failed products and services from all over the world. It\u2019s kind of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/collection.museumoffailure.com\/phone-fingers\/\">weird<\/a>, kind of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/collection.museumoffailure.com\/little-miss-no-name\/\">sad<\/a>, kind of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/collection.museumoffailure.com\/ikea-a-i-r\/\">funny<\/a>. You can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/collection.museumoffailure.com\/\">check out the collection here<\/a>. \u2014&nbsp;CD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Top year-end lists<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a few of my favorite end-of-year lists, with two samples from each:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesswrong.com\/posts\/7hFeMWC6Y5eaSixbD\/100-tips-for-a-better-life?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email#Compassion\">100 Tips for a Better Life<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>\u201cKeep your identity small. \u2018I\u2019m not the kind of person who does things like that\u2019 is not an explanation, it\u2019s a trap. It prevents nerds from working out and men from dancing.\u201c<\/li><li>\u201cCultivate compassion for those less intelligent than you. Many people, through no fault of their own, can\u2019t handle forms, scammers, or complex situations. Be kind to them because the world is not.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tinybuddha.com\/blog\/40-ways-to-let-go-and-feel-less-pain\">40 Ways to Let Go and Feel Less Pain<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>\u201cChannel your discontent into an immediate positive action\u2014make some calls about new job opportunities, or walk to the community center to volunteer.\u201d<\/li><li>\u201cRemind yourself these are your only three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it. These acts create happiness; holding onto bitterness never does.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/magnetic\/52-things-i-learned-in-2022-db5fcd4aea6e\">52 things I learned in 2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>37 per cent of the world\u2019s population, 2.9 billion people, have never used the Internet. [International Telecommunication Union]<\/li><li>A deep learning model trained on 85,000 eyes can tell male from female eyeballs with 87% accuracy but no one knows why. [Edward Korot &amp; co]<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 MF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recomendo &#8211; Issue #340<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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\/40764"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40766,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40764\/revisions\/40766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}