Top products from r/Cortex
We found 20 product mentions on r/Cortex. We ranked the 35 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Competitive Solutions: The Strategist's Toolkit
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
2. Unravel 3 in 1 Wireless Charger (Apple Watch Compatible) 10W for iPhone 11/11 Pro/11 Pro Max/XS/Xs Max/XR/X/8/8 Plus/SE/Samsung Galaxy/AirPods (Black)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
THE PERFECT CHARGER FOR ANY SITUATION - Tired of having to choose between your single charging pad and your clunky multi-device hub? No more! Unravel folds into a space-saving single-device charger and you can also lay it flat to charge three devices at once. That’s not all! You can also use the F...
3. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
4. How Little Mole Got His Trousers / Concept and Illustrations by Zdenek Miler / Text: Hana Doskocilova / Krtek / Maulwurf / Kisvakond
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
5. How to Write the Perfect Resume: Stand Out, Land Interviews, and Get the Job You Want
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
6. Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Debt Updated and Expanded The First 5 000 Years
7. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
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9. Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
10. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
11. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Great product!
12. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Great product!
13. One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
14. An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Back Bay Books
15. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Picador USA
16. Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
MIT Press MA
17. A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Penguin Books
I will recommend my favorite nonfiction book, Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City by Peter Norton. It documents the period between WWI and the Great Depression when streets were converted from public spaces to car exclusive spaces from the perspectives of justice, order, and efficiency. It’s a fascinating history of how cities largely surrendered their greatest asset to the automotive lobby.
Perfect! I found it using the Hello Internet search. I misremembered that it was mentioned in Cortex. (And it was actually Brady who talked about the Microsoft guy.)
It was H.I. #83: The Best Kind of Prison:
http://podcastsearch.david-smith.org/episodes/1771#4960
And the guy was Preston McAfee. Here's his Numberphile interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kWuxfVbIaU
His book is Competitive Solutions: https://www.amazon.com/Competitive-Solutions-Strategists-Preston-McAfee/dp/0691124035/
Thanks for your help!
My personal favorite non-fiction books that sound incredibly boring, but are actually really interesting:
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky It's a book about salt! The history of salt, the cultural significance of salt, salt production through the ages, all about salt. It's amazing.
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky It's the history of Cod! The author spends a good portion of the book talking about how Cod is both incredibly bland and tasteless, but also how western culture loves that bland fish and all of the interesting political movements for Cod.
And for a more serious topic: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich. This is multiple personal accounts of the Chernobyl disaster, all deeply interesting, and deeply sad. I'm only an episode into the Chernobyl HBO series, but I'm pretty sure that show is following some of characters from this book. It's a high quality book that I think is worth everyone's time, it doesn't go super in depth with the technology, just the human aspect.
I would love to share a video but seems like Krtek is pretty much unavailable on reliable video services... :(
Looks like it has been translated to 'How Little Mole Got His Trousers'
Well due to that quick Part 4 JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure reference the author of the manga wrote a book about creating manga: https://www.amazon.com/Manga-Theory-Practice-Craft-Creating/dp/1421594072
I’ve heard good things about it and that most creative people can get something from it. My copy is still in the mail.
I actually found this a week ago and it does the trick. This is the charger I found. One of the chargers has a a charger that works for an Apple Watch and they all support fast Qi charging. I travel often for work so the fact that it folds up is awesome because most wireless chargers are bulky AF.
I haven't read this one myself, but from hearing Grey and Myke talk about their experiences, I think this book could be very helpful.
I think one problem people usually have is being too precious about it and end up feeling too intimidated to write as much as you want or at all. Especially with pen and paper it's easy to feel that you shouldn't ruin this beautiful physical objects with your crappy handwriting and unimportant stuffs. I think I heard Merlin on one of the All the Great Shows™ talked about this and solved this by scribbling on the first page of a notebook then it's ruined already you can feel easy. But since you're having a yearly theme of sweating the small stuff maybe this doesn't bother you at all.
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Oh and the yearly theme reminded of Chris Hadfield's book where there's literally a chapter on sweating the small stuff. Is that where it came from? If not it might be an interesting read for you
A random selection of non-fiction recommendations for /u/MindOfMetalAndWheels:
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts https://www.amazon.com/dp/014311235X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_8NWuDbYZJJT2W
The author interviewed every single astronaut who went to the moon in the 90s when they were still alive and compiled basically the “definitive” history of the Apollo program. Just the sheer amount of effort put into the program is reflected here and the astronauts different personalities shine through.
At Home by Bill Bryson
Grey's talked about other books of his, and this is full of odd stories about how certain domestic things we take for granted arrived at their modern form.
Longitude by Dave Sobel
A book about how modern navigation was made possible through solving a seemingly impossible problem namely determining the longitude. At the time the solution was thought to be astronomy and the scientific community ignored the simple solution through watchmaking developed by a single man. A nice David vs. Goliath story about a guy fighting to be recognised for a simple mechanical solution to a problem thought to be impossible.
How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and Invention
This book is about the development and distribution of digital music files. It is a unique look at the true crime of warez and music piracy.