{"id":45215,"date":"2025-12-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=45215"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:38:30","slug":"whats-in-my-now-bob-oken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-now-bob-oken\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in my NOW? \u2014 Bob Oken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am a technical field representative in the media data industry. I have tons of varied interests and generally prefer being in the outdoors. Stay active and stay curious. \u2014<strong>Bob Oken<\/strong><\/p>\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\/2025\/12\/wimb-bob-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45216\" width=\"647\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/12\/wimb-bob-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/12\/wimb-bob-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/12\/wimb-bob-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/12\/wimb-bob.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>PHYSICAL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/Kx1CDak\">Comfortable with Uncertainty by Pema Chodron<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; I treat this book as a daily devotional. I\u2019m not a religious person but the act of reading one page per day and meditating on it is powerful and scratches my spiritual itch. Pema Chodron has written many books on meditation and mindfulness. Her writing is down to earth, conversational, and never ceases to make me think deeply.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/OfzL0fx\">Mini Binoculars<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; I have two windows in my home office and I love to sit at my desk and use these mini binoculars to observe nature in my yard. You can certainly spend a lot more money on fancy binocs but these are inexpensive and do the job well.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowflex.com\/product\/552-results-series-adjustable-dumbbells\/ZMK4011008.html\">Bowflex 552 Adjustable Dumbbells<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; Staying fit and strength training have become big parts of my life as I have advanced into middle age. These dumbbells are easy to use, save a ton of space over traditional dumbbell sets and are well made. I\u2019ve had them for years, use them 4 times weekly and they just keep on going.<\/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:\/\/archive.org\/\">Internet Archive<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; From their website, \u201cInternet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more\u201d. You can spend hours here discovering live music, old books, videos, you name it. And it\u2019s all free. Kind of what we all wanted from the internet when it began.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perplexity.ai\/comet\">Perplexity Comet Browser<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; This is not just a browser, it\u2019s also an AI assistant. It can do anything that Chrome, Edge or Safari can do but can also book a trip (including finding flights, hotels, etc.), browse your emails for specific information or give you recipe ideas for tonights dinner and order the ingredients for pick up from Wal Mart, etc. Perplexity is a great AI app and the integration to web browser\/Ai Assistant just seems natural. It\u2019s very new so it will only get better from here.<\/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><em>A lot of people prefer the comfort of a crowd to the responsibility of independent thought.<\/em>&nbsp;\u2014 Shane Parrish<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This quote is so appropriate to todays on line world. Shane Parrish is one of the most cogent thinkers around. His Sunday newsletter,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/brain-food\/\">Brain Food<\/a>, bills itself to be a \u201csignal in a world full of noise\u201d. It truly is just that. There\u2019s not a week that goes by where I don\u2019t gain some insight from his critical thinking. He also has several great books and a fantastic podcast.<\/p>\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 #233<\/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\/45215"}],"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=45215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45217,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45215\/revisions\/45217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}