{"id":41630,"date":"2023-11-08T17:09:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T00:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=41630"},"modified":"2023-11-08T17:10:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T00:10:26","slug":"whats-in-my-now-ana-bernardi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-now-ana-bernardi\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in my NOW? \u2014 Ana Bernardi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsinmynow.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sign up here<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;to get&nbsp;What\u2019s in my NOW?&nbsp;a week early in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a 34-year-old software engineer, living with an angry bird that sings \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d every day and wishing for sunny days to go out and ride my bike<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa84a1db5-72bb-493e-8b41-4e05412f72fa_1280x720.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa84a1db5-72bb-493e-8b41-4e05412f72fa_1280x720.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>PHYSICAL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/640v3Ye\">Blanket<\/a><\/strong>: I don&#8217;t know why I feel the need to use a blanket everywhere inside my house. I have a different blanket for each chair, couch, or bed in my home, even during the summer. I&#8217;m currently typing this while using a blanket on my home office chair.<\/li><li>When I&#8217;m doing an activity that requires focus, I really like to use&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/uO4YM\">my headphones<\/a><\/strong>. They&#8217;re Bluetooth ones, and their audio is great.<\/li><li>I&#8217;m addicted to data and statistics; I don&#8217;t miss an opportunity to generate or read them (especially if there are graphs). That said, I always wear&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/heUxjs\">my smartwatch<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;when I&#8217;m working out. It tells me if I&#8217;m doing well or if I&#8217;ve broken my records. It&#8217;s really exciting (at least for me).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>DIGITAL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>I cannot live without my Spotify account. When I need to focus on my work I just put a great song and the magic happens.https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/6HsxRCBQAVTR1LMd4XpYIl<\/li><li>I really like to relax with a gameplay YouTube video playing in the background. The streamer I consider the best for this is the one called&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@T90Official\">&#8220;T90&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>. He streams Age of Empires 2 games, and even if you don&#8217;t pay much attention to the video, it can be relaxing and satisfying.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>INVISIBLE<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>I&#8217;m always reevaluating and reviewing my ideas. Maybe there are times when I am wrong and could potentially be causing harm or doing something bad to someone. Besides, there&#8217;s no harm to myself in double-checking the things I do.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><strong>What\u2019s in your NOW?<\/strong><\/p><p>We want to know what\u2019s in your&nbsp;now&nbsp;\u2014 a list of&nbsp;6 things that are significant to you now&nbsp;\u2014 3 physical, 2 digital and 1 invisible.&nbsp;<\/p><p>If you\u2019re interested in contributing an issue, use this form to submit:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/Pf9BMuombeg1gCid9\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/Pf9BMuombeg1gCid9<\/a><\/p><p>If we run your submission in our newsletter and blog, we\u2019ll paypal you $25.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>issue #162<\/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":[2303],"tags":[1553],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41630"}],"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=41630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41632,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41630\/revisions\/41632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}