{"id":44583,"date":"2025-07-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=44583"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:51:58","slug":"whats-in-my-now-maria-li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-now-maria-li\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in my NOW? \u2014 Maria Li"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently retired print production professional. Current occupation: Chief Optimization Officer (COO) of Meum, Inc.<\/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\/07\/maria-li-wimb-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/07\/maria-li-wimb-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/07\/maria-li-wimb-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/07\/maria-li-wimb-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/07\/maria-li-wimb.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>My electric Singer sewing machine<\/strong>: for making bespoke things (a button-down shirt with loop closures, the right-sized EDC bag) for myself and my friends and for mending or re-making things I already have.<\/li><li>All-weather, seasonless, ankle-supporting, no-lace, slip-on, everyday&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blundstone.com\/womens-waterproof-boots\">Blundstone boots<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kjmagnetics.com\/tin1-magnet-sample-kit\">Small, strong magnets<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;for managing the weekly flotsam and jetsam of scribbled notes, coupons, bills, cards, receipts, tickets, postcards, photos, takeout menus, psa flyers and other ephemera.<\/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:\/\/f-droid.org\/\">FOSS<\/a><\/strong>, free open source software, for ad-free, mostly free or pay-what-you-can or -want, creative, quirky-fun utilities (aneko, f-droid.org) and games (kumquats, f-droid.org); and an ebook reader that can reflow text\/pictures in&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gitlab.com\/axet\/android-book-reader\">OCR&#8217;d PDFs<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pine64.org\/devices\/pinetime\/\">The pinetime $27, water-resistant, dustproof smartwatch<\/a><\/strong>: the basic features have all that I need &#8211; a step counter, heart rate monitor (a bit wonky), 5-day weather (just added); a work-in-progress with a charge that lasts for 2 days or more depending on settings configuration. Other apps included that I don&#8217;t use daily: doodle app, flashlight; games; alarm, music controller; notifications<\/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>Living in a walkable city, where everything you need is a few minutes&#8217; walk away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\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 #218<\/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\/44583"}],"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=44583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44585,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44583\/revisions\/44585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}