{"id":47092,"date":"2026-10-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=47092"},"modified":"2026-10-16T06:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:30:40","slug":"yesterdays-weather-quantify-yourself-science-advice-for-parts-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/yesterdays-weather-quantify-yourself-science-advice-for-parts-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday\u2019s weather \/ Quantify yourself science \/ Advice for parts work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The key premise of Recomendo is that everything we have suggested weekly in the past 10 years has been a personal recommendation based on our own experiences. It is something we have seen, heard, visited, or used ourselves. For this Christmas, we\u2019d like to deviate from that principle slightly (and temporarily) to provide you with a dozen of recommendations from our subscribers. That is you. For our brand new Annual Christmas Reader Recommendations<\/a><\/strong> issue we will select the best personal recommendations submitted within the next 2 weeks by October 25<\/strong>. To keep it sane, just one recommendation per subscriber. Keep it short and personal. Suggest a product, tool, app, place, book, documentary, podcast, follow\u2014anything\u2014that you genuinely love, and few know about. No self-promotion. Beyond the dozen we share in the newsletter, we will post all of the vetted submissions on our website.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday\u2019s weather<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Most weather apps don\u2019t show you yesterday\u2019s weather. Who cares, right? But it\u2019s useful information if you want to know whether today will be warmer or colder than yesterday. Yesterday<\/a> is a free iPhone app that shows a chart of the hour-by-hour temperatures for yesterday and today. If it\u2019s late in the day, you can see how tomorrow\u2019s weather will differ from today\u2019s. It also gives you a simple one-sentence summary, like \u201cToday will be noticeably hotter and sunnier\u201d or \u201cDaytime high noticeably warmer and rain unlikely.\u201d It was created by Matt Webb, who publishes Interconnected<\/a>, one of my favorite newsletters. It\u2019s a great example of vibe coding. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quantify yourself science<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Eighteen years ago Gary Wolf and I started the Quantified Self movement \u2013 the idea that you could use technology to track yourself. Gary hosted thousands of meetups where people shared what they were tracking and what they learned, and from this vast experience over decades, he finally wrote up the results of what we know about self-tracking in a new book, The Quantified Self<\/a><\/em>. The book is fabulous, perceptive, useful, and illuminating. Turns out self-tracking is more about observing and having the right questions, than it is about wearable technology. Self-tracking can be a form of what Gary calls \u201cpersonal science\u201d \u2013 you are doing experiments on yourself (N=1), and the methods, criteria, protocols are different than what you would do for N=millions. I highly recommend The Quantified Self<\/em> for everyone; we are all doing personal science on ourselves, and this will help you do it better. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advice for parts work<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This short guide by Tricycle Day <\/a>gathers practical advice from licensed psilocybin facilitators on working with the inner child, critic, protector, people-pleaser, and all the other parts that can pull us in conflicting and confusing directions. I think this advice is useful with or without psychedelics. I found it helpful to learn that our inner inhabitants don\u2019t always speak in words: \u201cOur parts can show up through emotions, memories, body sensations, images, or inner dialogue, offering information about what they need and what they\u2019ve been carrying.\u201d \u2014 CD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stainless steel coffee filter<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I often take an AeroPress coffee maker<\/a> when traveling, especially if I\u2019m staying at a hotel or Airbnb. When I arrive, the first thing I do is buy ground coffee at a local market. I\u2019ve streamlined my setup by using this stainless steel filter<\/a> instead of bringing a sack of paper filters. It does a great job filtering the coffee, and I think it tastes better than coffee pressed through paper. It\u2019s easy to clean with a rinse under the faucet, and Altura says it will replace the filter if you lose it, break it, or even have it stolen, no questions asked. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inbox recommendations<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It feels a little meta to share a newsletter\u2019s list of other newsletters worth your time<\/a>, but I\u2019ve recommended Wonder Tools before and trust Jeremy Caplan\u2019s curation. His list includes 17 newsletters covering useful tools, technology, AI, news, journalism, and practical wisdom. I\u2019ve already added a few to my Feedly. Worth checking out if your inbox could use some new sources. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alternative citizenship<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There are many reasons to live somewhere else, or to have the option to live somewhere else. The Nomad Capitalist<\/a> is a YouTube channel that takes a market approach to the question of where you can live. It researches, compares, evaluates how much it costs to purchase a passport, or a residency card, or buy real estate around the world, and gives advice on what are the best bargains for \u201ccitizenship through investment\u201d and so on. What is the cheapest price for a passport and what do you get? Where are taxes minimal? Many of the options he examines are not cheap, but for some, it can still be worth it. It\u2019s good to know what your options are. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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