Archives for the 'life hack' Category

Anti-Anti-Hacks [The 4-Hour Workweek Journal]

There are hacks, and there are anti-hacks. Both have their merit. I think this blog has been a mixture of both almost since the beginning. I like certain things about Getting Things Done ("GTD"), and yet I detest productivity for productivity’s sake. After all, it was the book The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss that [...]

23 May 2008 | 4-hour Workweek, GTD, Getting Things Done, Personal Productivity, Productivity, alternative productivity, anti-hack, conventional wisdom, life hack | No Comments

Number 1 Productivity Practice [The 4-Hour Workweek Journal]

You may have noticed that I have been missing in action for a couple weeks. The culprit behind this absence? Multiple projects and an ongoing problem with perfectionism. With respect to the projects, I am working on two major activities at work, one of which is completely new, uncharted territory with the requisite, and inefficient, [...]

28 April 2008 | Getting Things Done, Personal Productivity, Productivity, busy, capture, life hack, perfectionism | No Comments

Using ice cubes for plant watering productivity [Hack Your Day]

Tim from Stuff for Getting Things done wrote about a great technique for watering your plants. If you have a very sensitive plant like a bonsai, you know that you can’t just pour a glass of water on it and be done with watering. Especially if you don’t really have time for this, a technique [...]

22 January 2008 | Productivity, life hack | No Comments