{"id":43954,"date":"2025-04-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=43954"},"modified":"2025-04-03T14:39:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T21:39:02","slug":"whats-in-my-now-justin-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-now-justin-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in my NOW? \u2014 Justin Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m a marketing executive who&#8217;s worked at Nike, Activision, Twitter and WWE currently consulting helping brands big and small. In my spare time I like to garden, spend time with my daughter, and build LEGO&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thelandingpad.substack.com\/\">The Landing Pad<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;is my Substack newsletter helping marketers with their job search with weekly job listings, tips &amp; tricks, and helpful articles from experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/04\/justin-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/04\/justin-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/04\/justin-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/04\/justin-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/04\/justin.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>PHYSICAL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.ledger.com\/pages\/ledger-flex\">Ledger Flex<\/a><\/strong>: I&#8217;ve been buying Bitcoin as a long term investment regularly, and prefer to own it myself rather than hold it on a centralized exchange like Coinbase. Recently purchased the Ledger Flexwhich is a beautiful hardware wallet that gives you added security and makes transactions easy because of its touchscreen.<\/li><li><strong>Puzzles<\/strong>: Between meetings, after work, while I&#8217;m deep in thought. I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of my time on puzzles. I find it&#8217;s soothing, helps me focus and think, and just really enjoy a good break from screens for a change to do something enjoyable<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/reigningchamp.com\/products\/midweight-terry-standard-hoodie-midnight\">Reigning Champ Hoodie<\/a><\/strong>: I&#8217;m at that point in my life where I&#8217;m basically wearing a uniform everyday, and my Reigning Champ hoodies are an almost everyday look. I&#8217;ve done a ton of research and I&#8217;ve found them to be my favorite BY FAR and them in a bunch of different colors<\/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&#8217;m currently a marketing consultant, and I help lots of early stage companies with their branding, product positioning, and early marketing activities. I always recommend\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4\">this video by Simon Sinek<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0about how businesses that have a &#8220;why&#8221; that you can communicate is so important. Highly recommend this for entrepreneurs and business leaders.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/\">Telegram<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; More and more of my business and group chats with friends are moving to Telegram recently. The features are much more robust then text group chats, it&#8217;s very popular internationally, and earlier stage companies are using it more than Slack from what I&#8217;ve noticed.<\/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>Keep learning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>A new topic, language, about a sub culture, whatever it is. Having a thirst for knowledge is the most powerful way to continue to grow<\/p>\n\n\n\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>issue #209<\/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\/43954"}],"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=43954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43956,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43954\/revisions\/43956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}