{"id":37892,"date":"2021-02-21T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=37892"},"modified":"2021-02-15T14:33:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T21:33:38","slug":"recomendo-pdfsame-energybrown-girl-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/recomendo-pdfsame-energybrown-girl-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Recomendo PDF\/Same Energy\/Brown Girl Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Digital Recomendo book<\/strong>
\nEvery week for the past 4 years we\u2019ve recommended 6 things. We went through all those, selected the best 1,000, grouped them by subject, and created a book. That book,\u00a0Recomendo: The Expanded Edition<\/em>\u00a0came out in paper, but is now available as a full color PDF. Each recommendation has active hyperlinks and a QR code. The PDF book is easily searchable and very browseable.\u00a0Recomendo: The Expanded Edition PDF<\/em><\/a>\u00a0costs $2.99. It\u2019s a no brainer if you like this stuff. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Visual style replicator<\/strong>
\nThe coolest thing I\u2019ve seen in many years is\u00a0Same Energy<\/a>. This is a beta-version of a visual search machine. You give it an image and it returns more images that feel exactly like the one you started with. Some images may be the same subject, some may be the same lighting and coloring, or some have the same visual style. It works uncannily well. I can start with a piece of furniture, or a fabric design, or an album cover, or an Instagram travel photo, and I\u2019ll get an endless mosaic of images with the same energy. Like Pinterest, I can select one of the offerings and then get more images similar to that one, and so on. Unlike Pinterest, I can also create a collection of images and use that to train an AI to find images that share qualities of the whole set. I find I could spend hours watching the endless results recreationally, like staring into ocean waves or a campfire. It\u2019s also a brilliant design research tool, a stunning creative prompt, and a total inspiration. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Brown Girl Therapy<\/strong>
\nI am the daughter of two Mexican immigrants and when I was younger I had a lot of shame around my last name, the way that I looked, how poor we were, etc. When I found\u00a0Brown Girl Therapy<\/a>\u00a0on Instagram I finally felt understood. Brown Girl Therapy is an online mental health community for children of immigrants founded by\u00a0Sahaj Kohli<\/a>, a mental health therapist in training. Her posts are like mini-therapy sessions for me. Here is a reminder from Sahaj that\u00a0really hits home<\/a>: \u201cYou can love and be grateful for your immigrant parents\u2019 journey & make different choices than they\u2019d want. You can love and be grateful for your immigrant parents & need time away from them. You can love and be grateful for your immigrant parents & protect your mental health.\u201d Here are a few others:\u00a0Growth work<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0White girl ponytail<\/a>. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

No-stick baking<\/strong>
\nI use\u00a0parchment paper<\/a>\u00a0on a cookie sheet to bake cookies and bread. There\u2019s no need to grease the cookie sheet, and the cookies and bread come right off the parchment paper with zero residue. I can reuse the parchment paper. Even at 450 F, it doesn\u2019t burn. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Instant web pages<\/strong>
\nNotion<\/a>\u00a0is a simple-to-use wiki for making instant web pages. I didn\u2019t need to learn how to use it. I just started typing on a blank page. It\u2019s so much better than dealing with HTML and CSS! I use the free version, which has everything I need for now. I used it to create this\u00a0recipe page for almond flour bread<\/a>. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Unsuck it<\/strong>
\nI am getting a kick out of\u00a0Unsuck-it.com<\/a>\u00a0where you can find \u201cunsucked\u201d definitions for corporate speak, or as its called on the website \u201cdouchey jargon.\u201d What a great explanation of\u00a0brain dump<\/em><\/a>: Everything an individual knows about a topic, shared via cerebral defecation. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

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