Cool Tools

Our guest this week is Claire Lower, the senior food editor for Lifehacker.com. Claire lives in Portland OR, and has a BS in chemistry from the University of Florida, which she says she almost never uses. She was working as a lab technician at a big engineering firm when she started blogging for xoJane as a hobby. You can find her on Twitter @clairelizzie and Instagram @clairelizlower. For show notes: https://kk.org/cooltools/claire-lower-senior-food-editor-at-lifehacker/

Our guest this week is Sonal Chokshi. Sonal is editor in chief at Andreessen Horowitz, where she built the popular a16z Podcast among other things; she’s a former senior editor at Wired, and she directed content and community at Xerox PARC before that. She also did PhD work & ethnographic research in developmental/cognitive psychology on how teachers teach and students learn. For show notes visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/sonal-chokshi-a16z-editor-in-chief/

Our guest this week is Bob Potts. Bob holds a MFA in Industrial Design and was Design Director for a series of corporate groups responsible for design development of diagnostic medical products including Corning Medical and Bayer Healthcare. He holds sixteen patents and has been a frequent presenter at international industry conferences, design seminars, and design programs and business schools. His design groups have won sixty international awards for design excellence and have been featured in ID, Print, Communication Arts, Axis, NIKKEI DESIGN, Business Week, and Fortune. You can follow him on Instagram @bobatharbor. For show notes visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/bob-potts-industrial-designer/

Our guest this week is Nosa Edoimioya. Nosa is a PhD student at the University of Michigan working on controls of 3D printers. You can find him on Facebook, Twitter and Medium. For show notes visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/nosa-edoimioya-phd-student/

Our guest this week is Itamar Kubovy. Itamar is a creator and curator of live experiences. He studied philosophy; ran theaters in Germany and Sweden; wrote and directed plays and films, and for 16 years was Executive Creative Producer of the globally acclaimed dance company Pilobolus. For the Freeman company, Itamar co-founded and co-leads Inside Live, a platform where innovators in hybrid events share knowledge and collaborate. Most recently, Itamar launched Decameron Row, a virtual street of 100 windows where artists from around the world share one-minute video postcards of their work in isolation. For show notes visit: http://kk.org/cooltools/itamar-kubovy-curator-of-live-experiences/

Our guest this week is Angela Eaton. Angela is a Black Midwest-born environmental urbanist living and working in California on Ohlone land. Professionally, she supports communities in their efforts to monitor, understand, and publish open air quality and radiation data as a director for Safecast. For show notes visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/angela-eaton-environmental-urbanist/

Our guest this week is Jennifer Robbins. Jennifer is a designer who is best known for her work in web design. She has written thirteen books, including Learning Web Design, 5e (O’Reilly) and she co-founded the ARTIFACT Conference. Currently, she’s excited about the relaunch of “Cooking with Rockstars,” her pre-YouTube video podcast in which she interviews indie rockers about food. You can find her on Twitter @jenville. For show notes: http://kk.org/cooltools/jennifer-robbins-designer/

Our guest this week is Stephen Dubner. Stephen’s an award-winning author, journalist, and TV and radio personality. He’s co-author of the Freakonomics books, which have sold millions of copies in 40 languages, and he’s host of Freakonomics Radio, which gets 8 million global monthly downloads and is heard by millions more on N.P.R. stations and other radio outlets around the world. You can follow him on Twitter @Freakonomics. For show notes visit:

Our guest this week is Cooper Bates. Cooper co-founded the world’s first designer breath mint company, Hint Mint. Cooper also created the TEDx concept, and then he co-founded and produced TEDxSkidRow. He's a playwright currently touring two award-winning solo shows, as well as being the founder of the card game: I Think, Therefore I Question. For show notes visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/cooper-bates-co-founder-hint-mint/

Our guest this week is Matt Mullenweg, Co-Founder of the open source publishing platform WordPress, which now powers over 37% of all sites on the web. He is the Founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, and Jetpack. Matt is originally from Houston, Texas, where he attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and studied jazz saxophone. He currently splits his time between Houston, New York, and San Francisco. You can find him on Twitter and Tumblr @photomatt. For show notes visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/matt-mullenweg-co-founder-of-wordpress/