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Works in Progress / 100 greatest bird names / Cat water fountain
If you find any value in our little hand-written, hand-crafted, mostly free newsletter, the best thing you can do for us in return is to refer Recomendo to your friends. Because our casual suggestion might not be sufficient, we have added a...
Work light / Dad gift / Searchable Attenborough
Best work light
My sister has one of these Nightstick rechargeable floodlights and uses it for crawlspaces and poking around the yard after dark. It throws a strong beam — 600 lumens on high, 225 on low — and the single push-button swi...
How everyday things work / Storied Colors / All Carve Outs
How everyday things work
Mechanical-pencil.com reminds me of the Way Things Work book I loved as a kid, but with 3D animations that make it even more illuminating. Mechanical engineer and artist Bryan Macomber tears down familiar objec...
At‑home writing retreat / Surprising podcasts / Tiny camera
At‑home writing retreat
I copied this essay’s idea of an at‑home writing retreat by creating a loose schedule of deep‑work, time‑blocked writing between breaks for reading, meditating, walking my dog, lunch, and body care. What would h...
Life in ancient times / Desperate Oasis / Theatrical releases you can stream
Life in ancient times
Most sources of AI-generated content do not warrant a second visit. The only AI-generated content I have been returning to are two YouTube channels that use AI to reconstruct history. The first one, Majestic Studi...
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Senior Maverick, Wired, a magazine I co-founded in 1993. Also author of many books, such as What Technology Wants, and orginatior of 1,000 True Fans. Photographer, artist, and radical optimist.
Boing Boing, Make, Wired, Cool Tools, Recomendo, IFTF, The Magnet, Book Freak
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