{"id":47211,"date":"2026-11-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=47211"},"modified":"2026-10-30T02:35:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:35:52","slug":"whats-in-my-now-stephen-kinsella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-now-stephen-kinsella\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in my NOW? \u2014 Stephen Kinsella"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>I\u2019m a Professor of Economics at the University of Limerick in Ireland, I\u2019ve helped create some interesting courses in <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/fe3f2250-5558-4928-922f-094a1b029213?j=eyJ1IjoiMXhmZzB6In0.4ieSFe4rvvESx3-YSOApdZUV-VKuM1Arc6QBuHWifaY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Software Engineering<\/a> and Bioscience. I love reading these and thought it might be nice to do one of my own. \u2014 Stephen Kinsella<\/em><\/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\/2026\/10\/wimb-Stephen-Kinsella-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47212\" width=\"557\" height=\"313\" title=\"Halfday Garment Duffel Bag, Lamy 2000 fountain pen, and Rodd and Gunn Winscombe 2.0 jacket on a white background\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2026\/10\/wimb-Stephen-Kinsella-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2026\/10\/wimb-Stephen-Kinsella-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2026\/10\/wimb-Stephen-Kinsella-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2026\/10\/wimb-Stephen-Kinsella.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>PHYSICAL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/626d1f0d-32c6-4b9e-afc4-521370e4f03e?j=eyJ1IjoiMXhmZzB6In0.4ieSFe4rvvESx3-YSOApdZUV-VKuM1Arc6QBuHWifaY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Halfday Garment Duffel Bag<\/a>. <\/strong>I travel at least once a week and it is a pleasure to use this bag. It is perfectly formed around a specific need. It helps me carry one suit, a spare shirt, some workout gear, and some toiletries, in a designed bag that is exactly adapted to the use case I have. It makes me happy using it.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/0f84c972-c33f-4d64-9ff8-72abbbe281ba?j=eyJ1IjoiMXhmZzB6In0.4ieSFe4rvvESx3-YSOApdZUV-VKuM1Arc6QBuHWifaY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lamy Fountain Pen 2000<\/a>. <\/strong>A luxury item, mine is twelve years old now, with the fine nib. It feels great to use, looks great, and it is a little piece of design excellence you get to enjoy daily. I use Asa-gao Iroshizuku ink because it looks fantastic on the page and works well with this pen.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/a4dd9684-f4b7-41c7-99b2-60ffe705cd77?j=eyJ1IjoiMXhmZzB6In0.4ieSFe4rvvESx3-YSOApdZUV-VKuM1Arc6QBuHWifaY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rodd and Gunn Jacket<\/a>. <\/strong>I love all of this brand&#8217;s products, and have several, but this jacket is my favourite.<\/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:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/34accf4b-1758-49a5-966e-d4171df590d9?j=eyJ1IjoiMXhmZzB6In0.4ieSFe4rvvESx3-YSOApdZUV-VKuM1Arc6QBuHWifaY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Freedom<\/a>. <\/strong>I bought a lifetime subscription a while ago. It blocks the stupid stuff when you need to try to be focused and clever.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/f85a0265-a004-4be4-93eb-f88a1c77d1d3?j=eyJ1IjoiMXhmZzB6In0.4ieSFe4rvvESx3-YSOApdZUV-VKuM1Arc6QBuHWifaY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YNAB<\/a>. <\/strong>A budgeting app that saves you money because it forces you to focus for a minute on money. I keep it as simple as I can with this.<\/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>\u169b\u1690\u168f\u1680\u1690\u168c\u1686\u1690\u1694\u1687\u1686\u169c This is Ogham, an ancient Irish alphabet, written linearly and on stone. What you are looking at is &#8216;Ar Aghaidh&#8217;, or &#8216;Onwards&#8217;.<\/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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>issue #277<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47588,"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":[1553],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47211"}],"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\/47588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47213,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47211\/revisions\/47213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}