{"id":43659,"date":"2025-02-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=43659"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:52:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:52:52","slug":"33-life-tips-secret-museum-of-mankind-small-egg-cooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/33-life-tips-secret-museum-of-mankind-small-egg-cooker\/","title":{"rendered":"33 life tips\/Secret Museum of Mankind\/Small egg cooker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/recomendo.com\/\">Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>33 life tips, Japanese style<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A friend shared this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrporter.com\/en-us\/journal\/lifestyle\/life-lessons-people-tokyo-japan-style-food-24538500\">guide of bite-sized tips<\/a>&nbsp;that blend Japanese cultural wisdom and practical life hacks. Examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Always follow the rules: Japan loves rules. Suffocating? Yes, but it makes the machine run smoothly. \u201cPeople love to follow rules here,\u201d Tokyo-based producer Kaori Oyama says. \u201cIt can be tiring, but at the same time it means that generally you know what to expect.\u201d<\/li><li>Enjoy the silence: Tokyo might be home to nearly 14 million people, but apart from the jingles you\u2019ll hear at the train stations and in the convenience stores, it can be surprisingly quiet. \u201cVery few people speak on the trains,\u201d says Mr Paul McInnes, senior editor of Tokyo Weekender magazine, who has lived in the city since 2000. \u201cIt\u2019s a wonderful way to have some quiet space and think about your day.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 MF<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Photos of a bygone world<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The strangest book I own is the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/CKf9eA\">Secret Museum of Mankind<\/a>. It is a thick book of a thousand grainy black and white photos of tribal people taken over a hundred years ago. The fuzzy photos show costumes and dress, strange tattoos and scarifications, topless women, bizarre religious rituals, cruel punishments, and esoteric practices of cults. The book has no author, no credits, no copyrights, no page numbers, and has the appearance of being reproduced many times without permission. There\u2019s no text in the book except for short unreliable captions that are dated and full of prejudices of that time. I keep coming back to the photos which capture worlds long gone. Despite its titillating gaze, you can see the texture of everyday life for most people with unvarnished realism in a world before electricity, coal, and manufacturing\u2014all revealed with a directness I have not seen published elsewhere. The book is most useful to anyone interested in clothes and fashion as every bit of clothing here was handmade and custom. While used copies are not hard to find, a good digital version has been scanned by Ian Macky, with added index and image grid, and is free&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ian.macky.net\/secretmuseum\/front_cover.html\">here<\/a>. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Small egg boiler<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/7ywg9m\">Dash Rapid Egg Cooker<\/a>&nbsp;($19) is incredibly easy to use and allows me to make anywhere from 1 to 6 hard-boiled eggs at a time. I often crave hard-boiled eggs in the moment, when I don\u2019t have the time to boil them on the stove and then let them sit, so I appreciate how fast and convenient it is. Plus, it&#8217;s lightweight and compact, making it easy to store in my cupboard alongside other kitchen tools without taking up too much space. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Useful kitchen tips<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This short wordless&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@dragonflyuk\/post\/DFuea8JNy9f?xmt=AQGzcWKHJ0oHyAYdgacLwNVnbTw11g0bitkNWE85CHDFWQ\">video features a dozen or so kitchen tips<\/a>, all new to me. Most of them are practical. I&#8217;ve already tried the lettuce-chopping technique and I&#8217;m not going back to the way I used to do it. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Maximize your vacation days<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/stretchmytimeoff.com\/\">web tool&nbsp;<\/a>will help you stretch your time off by identifying all the government holidays in your country and highlighting the best weeks in the year to schedule your vacation. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Dozen memorable quotes<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of these short quips contain bookfulls of wisdom. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The world is a museum of other people\u2019s passion projects. \u2014 John Collison<\/li><li>If you are like most people, then like most people, you don&#8217;t know you&#8217;re like most people. \u2015 Daniel Gilbert<\/li><li>I oscillate between thinking I am crazy, and thinking I am not crazy enough. \u2014 Joyce Carol Oates<\/li><li>The cause of death is birth. \u2014 David Hockney<\/li><li>When dreaming, imagine success. When preparing, imagine failure. \u2014 James Clear<\/li><li>Today is the worst AI will ever be. \u2014 Alex Irpan<\/li><li>We are never definitely right; we can only be sure we are definitely wrong. \u2014 Richard Feynman<\/li><li>The things you do badly are as much part of your style as the things you do well. \u2014 Martin Scorsese<\/li><li>Self employment is a never-ending contest between the world\u2019s worst manager and the world\u2019s laziest employee. \u2014 Daniel Akst<\/li><li>If you want new ideas, read old books. \u2014 Shane Parrish<\/li><li>I\u2019m thinking of Leonard Nimoy\u2019s spiritual journey from writing&nbsp;<em>I Am Not Spock<\/em>&nbsp;(1975) to writing&nbsp;<em>I Am Spock<\/em>&nbsp;(1995). This is a journey we all must make. \u2014 Tim Kreider<\/li><li>This present moment was once the unimaginable future \u2014 Stewart Brand<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recomendo &#8211; issue #449<\/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\/43659"}],"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=43659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43660,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43659\/revisions\/43660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}