{"id":27326,"date":"2016-09-18T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=27326"},"modified":"2016-09-14T08:15:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T15:15:23","slug":"readableshopperamazon-kickstarted-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/readableshopperamazon-kickstarted-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Readables\/Hopper\/Amazon Kickstarted projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Readables:<\/strong>
\nBooks related to my new book The Inevitable that I have found useful:
\nMagic and Loss by Virginia Heffernan<\/a>: Treats the digital world as a great work of art.\u00a0The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos<\/a>: Best book to date on artificial intelligence.\u00a0Machines of Loving Grace by John Markoff<\/a>: Best book to date on robots.\u00a0Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock<\/a>: Why predicting is hard and how to get better at it.\u00a0Pogue\u2019s Basics by David Pogue<\/a>: Extremely practical tips for techno-literacy. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Follow:<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m a big Welcome to Night Vale<\/a> fan, a community news podcast about a fictional town plagued by paranormal and spooky events. Besides listening to the podcast, I prioritized my Facebook feed to see their absurd status updates<\/a> first. They always make me smile. Example: \u201cScientists discover a new species of spider on the back of your shirt. \u2018Oh wow. It\u2019s crazy big. Good luck,\u2019 their press release reads.\u201d \u2014 CL<\/p>\n

Edible:<\/strong>
\nWhen it comes to airplane food, I agree with Anthony Bourdain: it\u2019s better to go hungry. But I don\u2019t like going hungry so I pack snacks with me. One of my favorites is the Graze Bar<\/a>. It\u2019s a tasty, chewy stick of grass fed beef containing no sugar, gluten, or MSG. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Travel tip:<\/strong>
\nHopper<\/a> is a smartphone app that predicts when airfare to a desired destination will be the cheapest. I\u2019ve set up an alert for Chiang Mai, Thailand. About once a month Hopper sends me a message with the best price it can find, telling me to \u201cwait\u201d or \u201cbuy.\u201d The price recently dropped from the $900s to the $500s and Hopper said \u201cbuy.\u201d \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Stuff:<\/strong>
\nWe bought this heated Shiatsu Massager<\/a> more than a year ago, and it has definitely been put to good use. We keep it plugged in right next to the couch and use it every night. The arm handles allows you to adjust and place the massage nodes directly on hard to reach muscles. \u2014 CL<\/p>\n

Things:<\/strong>
\nAmazon now has a section where they sell originally Kickstarted projects<\/a>. Bottom up retailing. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Want to get our next Recomendo a week early in your inbox? Sign up for next Sunday newsletter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/div><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recomendo: issue no. 8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2323],"tags":[2324],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27334,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27326\/revisions\/27334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}