{"id":30357,"date":"2017-12-17T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=30357"},"modified":"2017-12-15T14:50:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T21:50:52","slug":"the-friendly-orange-glowwoodworking-diysokanu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/the-friendly-orange-glowwoodworking-diysokanu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friendly Orange Glow\/Woodworking DIY\/Sokanu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Forgotten history<\/strong><br \/>\nA book I recommend,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2kxUkBa\" target=\"_blank\">The Friendly Orange Glow<\/a>. I\u2019ll just paraphrase the rave burb I wrote for it: \u201cI love this deep unknown history. It\u2019s an incredible tale of a rag-tag team of students inventing key technologies such as flat screens, instant messaging, networked games, blogging \u2014 in the 1960s and 1970s, several decades before Silicon Valley, Apple, Facebook. Then they were totally forgotten. Your mind will be blown.\u201d \u2014 KK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Woodworking DIY channel<\/strong><br \/>\nApril Wilkerson is a woodworker and her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/AprilWilkersonDIY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0is filled with her projects, like a chicken coop, a multipurpose garage storage station, a cedar fence, a walking cane, and more. She\u2019s great at showing and explaining her work, and letting you see her mistakes and workarounds, which is very valuable. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n<p><strong>One-stop career center<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sokanu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sokanu Career Test<\/a>\u00a0is like a supercharged version of the one I took in high school. A 20-minute test will give you your top matches out of 800+ careers based on your personal interests, personality characteristics and ideal work environment. You also get info on degree paths, salary and links to job listings. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inexpensive upper body workout<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 2012 I bought an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2AAARWu\" target=\"_blank\">$18 pull-up bar<\/a>\u00a0that hangs from a door frame. When I started, I wasn\u2019t able to do a single pull-up. After a week I could do one pull-up. A couple of months later I was able to do over 10 pull-ups. I still can. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n<p><strong>Person I am following<\/strong><br \/>\nI follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patrickc\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Collison<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter. He posts regularly (but not obsessively), with a high-signal to noise ratio, a broad interest in the usual tech, science, and bookish things, but with the occasional quirk to keep me surprised. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheap bedside alarm<\/strong><br \/>\nI bought\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2B5otyr\" target=\"_blank\">this small $10 clock<\/a>\u00a0so I could avoid looking at my phone in the morning. The alarm is progressive and the ticking is as close to silent as possible. There\u2019s a button to illuminate the time in the dark and it doubles as a snooze button. Perfectly simple and useful. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/recomendo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Get the Recomendo weekly newsletter<\/a>\u00a0a week early by email.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recomendo: issue no. 73<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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\/30357"}],"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=30357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30359,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30357\/revisions\/30359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}