Ask Readers: What Needs Hacking?
I’ve got a question for you: what parts of your life need hacking? Truly. What parts of your life need a workaround? I started thinking about the concept at its root: life hacking. This presumes life is a system (I concur), and that the system has regularly planned programs to execute. Routines? So, one process is getting enough sleep. Another process is better input of food for cleaner energy, etc.
I suspect most of what we publish here appeals to your desire to over-clock your personal CPU. You want tips and tricks to get things done faster / better / more effectively. True?
But if you go with this poorly drawn analogy, it really opens up all kinds of topics to consider. The question then becomes: if we were rewriting your personal OS, improving your bus speeds, offering new interface protocols… what would you choose?
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uksigma says on June 16th, 2006 at 10:38 am
Quicker reboot. Multiple desktops. Google desktop search. Most importantly I would like a ‘clear desktop’ button
Hawk says on June 16th, 2006 at 11:04 am
What part of my life needs hacking? Personal relationships.
Graham English says on June 16th, 2006 at 11:10 am
I need better vacation hacks. And then of course, I need better financial planning hacks so I can hack a better vacation
rico says on June 16th, 2006 at 11:15 am
way to get drunk faster, smoke cigs faster, forget the pain faster…
Bruno Amaral says on June 16th, 2006 at 11:21 am
right now, there are two things on my mind regarding life hacking:
- a better way to keep an eye out for price drops on stuff i need to buy;
and
- a strategy to find paying costumers for my webdesign company.
nan says on June 17th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Studying!!
Edwinek says on June 19th, 2006 at 3:14 am
@uksigma: You wouldn’t mean -d, would you?
Edwinek says on June 19th, 2006 at 3:17 am
Sorry, a bit of my commenbt got swallowed. I meant [windows]-d, shows just the desktop.
Lucrosus says on June 19th, 2006 at 7:58 am
I would like to have a Life Desktop, a command central, if you will, where all the different pieces of my life (home, work, spiritual, emotional, etc), can be thought about and planned; where I have the time and energy to think and plan things for the future. A current snap-shot of my life, with all the various possibilities listed and consequences shown. A master record of what I’ve done and what happened afterwards.
More than that, a space where things go slower and I’m able to know what is important and just urgent; who needs attention, comfort, discipline; where I’m needed and need to be (both literal and figurative); when is the right time and the right place; how to be a better father, husband, adult, human; why…all the why questions.
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I have a big family (8 children) and sometimes feel out of touch with them.
dogg! says on June 19th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
Willpower. Motivation. Self-discipline.
Every morning I get up and think, I am going to write 1000 words today! Or, I am going to write 500 words today! Or, I am going to write /something/ today! And guess what gets written? (Hint: starts with “no” and ends with “thing”)