{"id":45250,"date":"2025-12-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=45250"},"modified":"2025-12-03T13:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:01:02","slug":"whats-in-my-now-george-kosmopoulos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-now-george-kosmopoulos\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in my NOW? \u2014 George Kosmopoulos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkosmo.eu\/\">George Kosmopoulos<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;codes mobility solutions at Cowboy in Brussels, with two kids and an artist wife &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mimikunz.com\/\">Mimi Kunz<\/a>. Built unsuccessful apps, teaches web development, practices BJJ, and thinks a lot about resilient futures while drinking too much coffee. Currently wondering if any of this counts as building something meaningful.<\/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-george-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45251\" width=\"603\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/12\/wimb-george-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/12\/wimb-george-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/12\/wimb-george-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2025\/12\/wimb-george.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>PHYSICAL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thriftbooks.com\/series\/culture\/38603\/\">The collection of \u201cThe Culture\u201d books by Iain M Banks<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thriftbooks.com\/series\/culture\/38603\/\">&nbsp;<\/a>&#8211; When reading a lot, one cannot re-read too much. This series though is constantly re-readable. It\u2019s adventures from the perspective of an Utopia dealing with the rest of the universe. Somehow, the author manages to make adventurous stories in a variety of worlds and there\u2019s always some depth to discover and ponder over.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eu.leatherman.com\/en-be\/products\/micra\">Micra Leatherman Keychain Multitool<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; This is the leatherman I have on my keychain. I thought it\u2019d be mostly useless accessory that would make me look good and since then it has been used and overused.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/haflinger.com\/Grizzly-Kris\">Haflinger Slippers<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; I\u2019m running up and down my house with my kids in my arms and so I found that I needed solid slippers and these do the job. I never fall with them and I am always comfortable.<\/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>Bedtime mode on my Android phone<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; It\u2019s like a reverse alarm for when I\u2019m tired and somehow end up scrolling. My phone goes grey and tells me it\u2019s time to go to bed.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/games\/connections\">Connections<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; I love this game! It\u2019s simple and smart at the same time and I play it every evening with my wife. When we have friends in the evening I take out pens and paper and we do it as a group<\/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>Finite games are played to win seriously with defined rules and endpoints, and infinite games are played for the purpose of continuing play itself with fun. \u2014&nbsp;<strong>James P. Carse<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Life is an infinite game, one of the only ones &#8211; the rest is finite games and you can always not play finite games.<\/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 #234<\/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\/45250"}],"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=45250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45253,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45250\/revisions\/45253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}