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Brush while in the shower.
> Brush while in the shower. Not sure how that saves time, unless you're so coordinated that you can wash your body with one hand while you're brushing your teeth with the other. Also, it would seem to waste a bit of water.
Yes, it probably is using more water but I waste that water anyway.
Putting myself in positions where I have to pull through. Like signing up to be a TA at the university -- now I know that I have to really master the course content. Or telling people that I do/will do x and y.. so now I have to do x and y or else I'm a hypocrite and that sure would be bad. I tell my friends that I get out of bed by counting down out loud from 5..0, and that I ALWAYS get out of bed at 0. And I've con…
Sitting next to another person while writing increases my writing productivity by at least 400%. In retrospect it took me way too long to break down and try this. My shot at immortality costs me $120/year for membership in the Cryonics Institute and $170/year for $250K of 10-year term life insurance of which $50K goes to CI. I lost 20 pounds on Seth Roberts's fixed-point diet (aka the "Shangri-La diet") and gained 10…
Open relationships sounds good on paper but only works as long as you are not actually in love.
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Open relationships sounds good on paper but only works as long as you are not actually in love.
At the risk of sounding merely contrarian, I can offer a handful of counterexamples that I know personally.
There is a reason why the experimentation with that kind of relationships have been on a decline since it's peak in the sixties/seventies.
We are talking about being in love not just being fuck buddies.
1) Own a business suit. It hacks other people, because whatever problem you are trying to get resolved does not happen to the sort of people who wear business suits. It also hacks yourself - you'd be amazed how hard it is to sound like an absent-minded twenty-something when you look like the CEO of a multinational. (Trust me.) 2) Writing letters - on paper, physical letters - is the most underrated professional skill…
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Really? What do you do instead of a resume? Just a cover letter?
Oh, you still need a resume but you don't start by delivering it. You start by talking to the person who is doing the hiring. the resume only comes out when they say "I'd like to hire you please send your resume to HR".
As some of you might know, trains are very crowded here in India. I take a train to work. My simple hack is a marked position on the station where I stand when the train arrives in order to be the first one to grab the handle of one of the marked compartments that I always get in. After the people on the train alight, I can sneak in quickly. Using this hack, I am the first one to get inside the compartment 90% of tim…
Get your self tested for ADD, I know this sounds weird but up 10% of people have it. And with treatment,I got tested and my coding started to become more in depth. My concentration is more then i can ever imagine. Before I would work 30mins 30 mins(a life hack I got from HN previously) off like a previous. Now I can work 2 hours straight with even better results from what I would do in 4 30 min work sessions.
I've got a lot of mileage out of this Employment Hack: Treat your job as an unimportant thing that's easily replaced, as opposed to your Career that's Important and Fragile and something that you should never ever mess with for worry of ruining your entire life. If you're not sweating your Career, you're more likely to do silly things like take too much vacation, even long sabbaticals. You're more likely to stand up…
I've got a lot of mileage out of this Employment Hack: Treat your job as an unimportant thing that's easily replaced, as opposed to your Career that's Important and Fragile and something that you should never ever mess with for worry of ruining your entire life. If you're not sweating your Career, you're more likely to do silly things like take too much vacation, even long sabbaticals. You're more likely to stand up…
Do you have kids or a mortgage?
I imagine you bring it up because losing your job is a much bigger deal when you have a family and expensive stuff. I'd counter that it's only a big deal if you're not certain that you can pick up a new job any time you want.
The best way to acquire that certainty is to spend the first several years of your career proving it to yourself.
- don't sweat your career, make a name for yourself
- find yourself on the market for whatever reason
- immediately get snapped up
- repeat