Saving Time on Routine Tasks: Optimized Reading

If I were to attempt to project the demographics that make up a typical lifehackista, according to the comments I see here and the roots of the phrase life hacks, I’d say that the average specimen spends a heck of a lot of time reading and writing, online and off, pretty much every single day.

It surely doesn’t apply to everyone who loves lifehacks, but then again, you’re reading this now… » Continue

May 14 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: optimization, reading, rss | 3 comments»

Go on a High-Information Diet

Everywhere you turn these days people are complaining about too much information. The phrase “information overload” gets more than 1.5 million hits on Google. (This post makes it one more!) Everyone seems to think that if they could just reduce the flow of information into their lives, everything would be all better. They could finally relax and take a minute to catch up.

My advice is the opposite: you don’t… » Continue

March 19 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: email, information, input, Management, rss | 24 comments»

My Struggles With Email Triage

I enjoy information, probably more than I should. I’ve managed to find a career path where information really is money — if I can break a story or create a new angle on it, I can eat at the end of the day. I’m constantly on the look out for new information that I can use. I get emails about all sorts of things, follow almost 300 blogs and… » Continue

February 14 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: email, information, overload, Productivity, rss | 19 comments»