{"id":43209,"date":"2024-11-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=43209"},"modified":"2024-11-21T16:33:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T23:33:20","slug":"whats-in-my-now-tim-sismey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-now-tim-sismey\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in my NOW? \u2014 Tim Sismey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsinmynow.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sign up here<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0to get\u00a0What\u2019s in my NOW?\u00a0a week early in your inbox.<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" 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%2F8ec17518-5a1f-4d72-bb4c-90894919687f_600x600.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a Process and Productivity consultant from the UK, particularly interested in how the design of our work affects our mental health and happiness. Also a coffee snob, enthusiastic home brewer, voracious reader, lapsed musician, dilettante and hobby collector. \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Tim Sismey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2024\/11\/bc5eee64-2f7b-4506-a2dd-4c23479c9228_660x440.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43211\" width=\"431\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2024\/11\/bc5eee64-2f7b-4506-a2dd-4c23479c9228_660x440.jpg 660w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2024\/11\/bc5eee64-2f7b-4506-a2dd-4c23479c9228_660x440-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LINKS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/timsismey\/\">Me on LinkedIn<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.make-work.work\/\">My Website<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/doghouse-reilly.teemill.com\/\">New project!<\/a>&nbsp;Apparently I&#8217;m designing t-shirts now.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2024\/11\/3b02f6dc-027f-4e30-92e0-c495d00738fc_1280x720-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43210\" width=\"596\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2024\/11\/3b02f6dc-027f-4e30-92e0-c495d00738fc_1280x720-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2024\/11\/3b02f6dc-027f-4e30-92e0-c495d00738fc_1280x720-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2024\/11\/3b02f6dc-027f-4e30-92e0-c495d00738fc_1280x720-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2024\/11\/3b02f6dc-027f-4e30-92e0-c495d00738fc_1280x720.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>PHYSICAL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/eHgHA6\">Ember Heated Mug<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; the best gifts are things you would never have bought for yourself, such as this USB-charging, bluetooth-enabled heated coffee mug my wife got me. No more letting my coffee go cold when I get distracted!<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hebtro.co\/\">HebTroCo Menswear<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; I&#8217;ve been making a conscious effort to buy less but better things that will last, and love the thoughtfully-designed, traditionally-made-in-the-UK&nbsp;clothes from this opinionated brand. I lived in their super-comfortable waxed canvas Outback shorts over the summer, and now winter is approaching, I\u2019m enjoying layering up with their over-shirts and jackets.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elgato.com\/uk\/en\/p\/stream-deck-pedal\">Elgato Stream Deck Pedal<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; I use a standing desk, and do a lot of virtual facilitation and presenting. I&#8217;m also a hand-talker. I recently bought this pedal board that enables me to trigger slides \/ polls \/ other tools with my feet, keeping my hands free for waving around.<\/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><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/gb\/app\/longplay\/id1495152002\">Longplay<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; This iOS (and soon-to-be Mac) app presents your Music Library as a gorgeous wall of cover art, ordered and sized by various criteria. It&#8217;s helped me rediscover forgotten gems and old favourites, and restores the old iPod &#8216;Shuffle Album&#8217; feature.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bunchapp.co\/\">Bunch<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; a tiny Mac app that lives in your menu bar that enables you to launch \/ quit \/ hide a &#8216;bunch&#8217; of apps \/ windows \/ documents with one click. I use it to switch contexts cleanly between different clients, or between professional and personal computer use.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>INVISIBLE<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>People like being good at their jobs. If you give them that opportunity and get out of the way, they will almost always delight and impress you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>issue #195<\/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":[2389],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43209"}],"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=43209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43212,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43209\/revisions\/43212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}