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Recomendo: 500 brief reviews of cool stuff
Every week for the past two years we briefly recommend 6 things to our friends in free email newsletter called Recommendo. This book features the “best of” those recommendations. Sometimes we suggest tools, but most items aren’t tools. Rather we recommend stuff such as our favorite places to visit, things to watch or listen to, favorite stuff to eat, as well as tips for work or home, and techniques we’ve learned, quotes we like to remember, and so on. This autumn we collected, filtered and organized 550 of the best recommendations and put them into a book, called naturally enough, Recomendo. The book is 95 jam-packed pages. We’ve categorized the recommendations, grouping like with like. Having all the workflow tips, or household suggestions, or workshop tools, or travel recommendations all in one place is super handy. There’s an index and subject guide. Many of the items have an illustration. To make up for the fact that a book can’t have links, we’ve added QR codes, so you can instantly get a link with your phone. Everyone who has picked the book up has found something cool for them on the first page and they keep turning the pages for more.
95 pages, Paperback
Published November 6, 2018
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About the author
Kevin Kelly
132 books1,601 followersKevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor from its inception until 1999. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets half a million unique visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers' Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control."
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June 27, 2020
This is a brilliant book full of tips, ideas, gadgets, tools and recommendations.
The book is divided into sections — kitchen, travel, health, etc — with each section packed with dozens of short suggestions and recommendations.
I’ve ended up downloading a host of apps, sharing a ton of ideas and buying a load of gadgets as a result of this book. I love it!
The book is divided into sections — kitchen, travel, health, etc — with each section packed with dozens of short suggestions and recommendations.
I’ve ended up downloading a host of apps, sharing a ton of ideas and buying a load of gadgets as a result of this book. I love it!
June 19, 2021
A recollection of the blog's entries.
January 13, 2023
Things I Recommend You Buy and Use
June 6, 2020
Useful tips, probably, but hard to parse and very hard to remember every tip for the long term. It's not that the book could've been written better, it's just impossible to provide tips like this without making it this way.
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