{"id":40066,"date":"2022-07-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=40066"},"modified":"2022-07-07T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T18:36:04","slug":"muteme-button-quick-clot-podchaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/muteme-button-quick-clot-podchaser\/","title":{"rendered":"MuteMe button\/Quick Clot\/Podchaser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Big illuminated mute button<\/strong><br>The\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/mute-button?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">MuteMe button<\/a>\u00a0is a large illuminated physical mute button that plugs into your computer with a USB cord and sits on your desk. When your mic is off, it glows red. Press the button to unmute and the light changes to green. No more \u201cWe can\u2019t hear you, you\u2019re on mute.\u201d \u2014 MF<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Stop bleeding bandage<\/strong><br>For the past ten years I\u2019ve packed some\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/4E71Bw?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Quick Clot<\/a>\u00a0bandage in my first aid kit. It\u2019s a bandage that decreases bleeding five times faster than a regular bandage, from 10 minutes to 2 minutes. It is especially useful for scalp wounds which bleed profusely. It is expensive ($15) so I cut one up into smaller pieces to use for smaller gashes. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>S<strong>earch podcast episodes by keyword<\/strong><br>A while back I recommended\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.recomendo.com\/posts\/podcast-search-engine?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Listen Notes<\/a>\u00a0as a podcast search engine, but unfortunately the advance search features are now behind a paywall. Recomendo reader Ken Rogan suggested\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.podchaser.com\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Podchaser.com<\/a>\u00a0as an alternative and I\u2019ve been using it for the past couple months to find episodes on specific subjects or keywords for free and without registering. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>1<strong>00 tips for a better life<\/strong><br>Here are a few favorites from\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lesswrong.com\/posts\/7hFeMWC6Y5eaSixbD\/100-tips-for-a-better-life?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">ideopunk\u2019s list of 100 useful tips<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>\u201cWhere is the good knife?\u201d If you\u2019re looking for your good X, you have bad Xs. Throw those out.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Discipline is superior to motivation. The former can be trained, the latter is fleeting. You won\u2019t be able to accomplish great things if you\u2019re only relying on motivation.<\/li><li>Sturgeon\u2019s law states that 90% of everything is crap. If you dislike poetry, or fine art, or anything, it\u2019s possible you\u2019ve only ever seen the crap. Go looking!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 MF<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Twitter influence audit<\/strong><br>To gauge the proper influence of an influencer you need a tool to sort out all the inactive, fake, bots, and low-quality followers they will inevitably have. The higher the follower count, the higher percentage of hollow followers.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sparktoro.com\/fake-followers\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Sparktoro<\/a>\u00a0will rate Twitter accounts for you. It says 21% of my followers are fakish. (But not you!) \u2014 KK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Create moments of transcendence<\/strong><br>LLeo Babauta of Zen Habits\u00a0wrote a wonderfully succinct post on How to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/zenhabits.net\/transcendent\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Make the Most of Your 24 Hours<\/a>. There are 4 things he mentions: intentionality, only 3 important tasks, gratitude and the most important being creating multiple moments of transcendence throughout your day. The days I remember the most are not the days I cross everything off my list. It\u2019s the days when I slow down and deepen the moments and spaces in between tasks. \u2014 CD<\/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. 313<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40066"}],"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=40066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40071,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40066\/revisions\/40071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}