{"id":39561,"date":"2021-12-12T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=39561"},"modified":"2021-12-13T11:52:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T18:52:50","slug":"12ft-iolife-pieproductive-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/12ft-iolife-pieproductive-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"12ft.io\/Life Pie\/Productive meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bypass almost any paywall<\/strong><br \/>\nIf a website allows Google to crawl its articles, it shouldn\u2019t then hide its articles behind a paywall. The website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/12ft.io\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">12ft.io<\/a>\u00a0bypasses paywalls by displaying the Google cache of articles. You can either go to the 12ft site and enter the URL of a paywalled article or prepend 12ft.io\/ to the URL of any paywalled page \u2014 MF<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to do a Life Pie<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Six Spokes Theory, described here as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dariusforoux.com\/six-spokes-theory\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">strategy for an optimal life<\/a>\u201d is a great way to draw out a snapshot of your life and see what areas might need more attention. This is also called a Life Pie, which I first read about in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/TZ5JpR?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">The Artist\u2019s Way<\/a>\u00a0by Julia Cameron. You start by drawing a circle and dividing it into 6 slices. Each slice is assigned to an aspect of your life. You then draw a dot on the dividing line to the degree that you feel fulfilled. After connecting the dots, you\u2019ll be able to spot in what areas you are lopsided. I made a short YouTube\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yK8yx53ZqvA?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">video outlining my process here<\/a>. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Productive meetings<\/strong><br \/>\nThis\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?ab_channel=MetaMeet&amp;t=71s&amp;utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter&amp;v=Ff9V0mISmtk\" target=\"_blank\">1-minute video<\/a>\u00a0by John Cleese is all you need to know about how to have productive (vs unproductive) meetings. One minute! Applies to zoom meetings, too.\u00a0 \u2014 KK<\/p>\n<p><strong>What books redditors are reading<\/strong><br \/>\nSomeone processed billions of comments to find the books\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redditreads.com\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">most mentioned on reddit<\/a>, and I am very grateful. Here are the most mentioned books in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redditreads.com\/r\/all?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter&amp;year=2021\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a02021<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the top one being \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/18693771-the-body-keeps-the-score?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma<\/a>.\u201d They are also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redditreads.com\/subreddits?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">grouped by subreddit<\/a>\u00a0which is super helpful. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roasted sesame seeds are the universal topping<\/strong><br \/>\nI love these\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/roasted-sesame-seeds?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Roasted White Sesame Seeds<\/a>\u00a0by Shirakiku. There\u2019s no salt or any other ingredient. Everything tastes better with a generous shake of the container \u2013 scrambled eggs, salads, ice cream, blueberries. Sometimes I\u2019ll have a spoonful of the plain seeds as a snack. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smart grammar assistant<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/app.grammarly.com\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Grammarly<\/a>\u00a0is a super grammar helper that is much smarter than the default ones in most applications. I use it all the time. I\u2019ve quickly come to depend on its artificial intelligence to improve my grammar and find more than the obvious typos. It seems context aware. And it runs at the OS level, so it works in most apps such as Slack, email, Discord, Evernote, Twitter, Facebook, etc. (It does not work in Google Docs for me.) Right now the basic model is free. \u2014 KK<\/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. 282<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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\/39561"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39563,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39561\/revisions\/39563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}