{"id":34160,"date":"2019-09-04T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=34160"},"modified":"2019-08-28T15:10:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T22:10:33","slug":"whats-in-my-bag-tim-oreilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-bag-tim-oreilly\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in my bag? \u2014 Tim O’Reilly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tim O’Reilly<\/a>\u00a0is the Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media and board member of Code for America. He is the author of\u00a0WTF? What\u2019s the Future and Why It\u2019s Up to Us<\/a>. His company mission is to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators, and to create more value than it captures, thus creating a more sustainable circular economy. He is currently working out how this principle ought to be applied by big tech platform companies. He can be found on Twitter as\u00a0@timoreilly<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gan Mao Ling<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/strong>Black Elderberry<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($8-$14)<\/strong>
\nI find this combo to be incredibly helpful if I take it when I feel cold symptoms start to come on (and every four hours thereafter till they go away). But if you don\u2019t catch it right away, it doesn\u2019t work, so the\u00a0little pill box<\/a>\u00a0with a few doses lives right in my bag. (The bottles are just for show.)<\/p>\n

A paper notebook and pen<\/strong>
\nI always carry one with me. It\u2019s often in my pocket, but I keep it in my bag when it isn\u2019t there. Paper notes are still a thing for me. I use notebooks that my own company hands out at\u00a0Foo Camp<\/a>, since they are just the right size for my back pocket.<\/p>\n

Mini Monocular<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($20)<\/strong>
\nWhether I\u2019m outdoors wanting a closer look at a bird, animal, or the trail ahead, or in a historical monument looking up at frescoes on the ceiling or an architectural detail, this is a cheap augmentation. I got my first monocular at a flea market in Beijing, and haven\u2019t been without one since. My current favorite is the Roxant 7×18 pocket scope. It does indeed fit in my pocket.<\/p>\n

A paper book<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m particularly fond of the generation of small hardbacks that preceded the paperback revolution. My favorite of all are the\u00a0Tauschnitz railway editions<\/a>\u00a0of great English literature from the 1860s to 1880s, which actually were paperbacks, but people took them home and had them bound, so every one is unique. But the little Oxford editions from the 1930s and 1940s are pretty sweet too. I\u2019ve been reading\u00a0Trollope\u2019s political novels<\/a>\u00a0lately \u2014 great perspective on a prior period of class struggle, and the beginnings of a \u201cwoke\u201d consciousness about privilege.<\/p>\n

About the bag<\/strong>
\nThis is a\u00a0State backpack<\/a>, which I was given as a speaker gift recently. It replaced a Timbuktu backpack that I\u2019d used for years, and was now worn out. It took a bit of getting used to the new layout, but now I like it a lot.<\/p>\n

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