{"id":33348,"date":"2019-04-14T02:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=33348"},"modified":"2019-04-11T10:39:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T17:39:24","slug":"manipulating-social-mediaaluminum-mousepadmanage-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/manipulating-social-mediaaluminum-mousepadmanage-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipulating social media\/Aluminum mousepad\/Manage conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/recomendo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social media manipulation explained<\/strong><br \/>\nThis well-done\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter&amp;v=1PGm8LslEb4\" target=\"_blank\">3-part YouTube series by SmarterEveryDay<\/a>\u00a0will make you smarter about how\/why social media algorithms are exploited, and why it is so difficult to remedy, and why this will be an on-going arms race. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aluminum mousepad<\/strong><br \/>\nThose neoprene mousepads make my skin crawl for some reason. I found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2CZv5yc?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>, which is made from aluminum, and it\u2019s a joy to use with my optical mouse. I even like the sound my mouse makes as I run it over the lightly textured surface. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cool down phrases<\/strong><br \/>\nThis\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gottman.com\/blog\/manage-conflict-repair-and-de-escalate\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Gottman Institute blog post<\/a>\u00a0has some examples of phrases to help de-escalate arguments with your partner. I wish it wasn\u2019t so hard to say \u201cI\u2019m sorry\u201d when I\u2019m in the wrong, but these workarounds help steer heated conversations back on track. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sturdiest big umbrella<\/strong><br \/>\nWe\u2019ve had one of the rainiest winters in memory. I normally carry a compact foldup umbrella in my bag, but when I head out from my house in the rain, I grab the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2WPHfBd?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Blunt<\/a>\u00a0near the door. This full-length umbrella is built like a tank. It is super sturdy, larger than a solo umbrella but not as big as a golf umbrella. There are no pointy corners (they are blunt, hey), and high winds won\u2019t\u00a0faze it a bit despite its large sized canopy. It would take an actual hurricane to invert it. You\u2019ll lose it before it wears out. It\u2019s expensive, but worth it. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Better neck pillow<\/strong><br \/>\nI just got back from an overseas trip and this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2WWuc13?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">ergonomic Trtl pillow<\/a>\u00a0helped me sleep through most of my long flights. It\u2019s super soft and supports my head better than traditional neck pillows. The best part of course is that it takes up virtually no space when packing. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n<p><strong>High quality computer transcripts<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019ve been using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rev.com\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Rev.com<\/a>\u00a0for transcripts of audio conversations. It\u2019s $1 a minute. But I recently tried\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/trint.com\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Trint.com,<\/a>\u00a0which uses software instead of humans to turn recordings into text, and it was as good as Rev.com. It\u2019s 25 cents a minute. Worth a try! \u2014 MF<\/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. 142<\/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\/33348"}],"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=33348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33360,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33348\/revisions\/33360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}