Isn't this called time management? Seems like hacking is just becoming a verb for anything. Well I gotta get back to hacking my breakfast.
A Startup's Guide to Time Hacking
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#12Isn't this called time management? Seems like hacking is just becoming a verb for anything. Well I gotta get back to hacking my breakfast.
Time and again, a term associated with a good and rare quality gets picked up by the business world, and then the marketing machine, in the process of using that term to sell everything and the kitchen sink, turns it into something annoying and worthless.
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#13Isn't this called time management? Seems like hacking is just becoming a verb for anything. Well I gotta get back to hacking my breakfast.
Why not hack breakfast altogether? Let's do lunch.
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#14My eyes bleed because of this tiny unreadable font. Try some of the google fonts instead ( https://www.google.com/fonts )
I have a tool for moments like this. It takes the central article on a page and displays only it in a nicely formatted in-window pop-up. I use Firefox Reader, though Evernote's Clearly and Readability would both suffice. Pocket would work too.
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#15Isn't this called time management? Seems like hacking is just becoming a verb for anything. Well I gotta get back to hacking my breakfast.
It's in the same boat as "growth hackers", which is what people in technology call themselves when they're afraid to admit that they do marketing.
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#16Besides startups, it's not enough to find the most important thing you should do. You should also make yourself do it, often at the expense of ignoring everything else. I'm surprised how often I'm able to intellectually tell what the most important thing is and still not bring myself do it. I wish the article offered tips on how to do that. A big problem I have with time is that it seems you need to have some runway…
For hard problems, you can take advantage of (and should embrace) the mind's wild variability by consciously outlining what you know about the problem until you hit a pause in the stream of consciousness, letting your subconscious work it over for a while as you put your conscious mind into a different context, and returning to it every so often to see if you've realized anything new. For me this is sometimes highly productive. And it's not always something glaringly apparent that will be presented to you. Often something up the hierarchy has changed but your conscious representation is left with a bunch of dangling pointers. So it's good to revisit the roots of the problem and reconstruct the problem from there outwards.
A good way to get better at it is to deliberately engage in this active context switching. You will pick up on what sorts of frequencies and how far away from the original problem you should context switch as you get more experience with doing this as deliberately as possible.
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#17Isn't this called time management? Seems like hacking is just becoming a verb for anything. Well I gotta get back to hacking my breakfast.
Yep, it's almost as annoying as using "Apple adjectives" (flowery prose like wonderful, pleasure, beauty, love, etc... applied towards any tech).
Hacker hasn't really meant anything for decades. I remember the old guys getting mad when "hacker" became a boogieman for the news, but the recent round seemed to start when some dude wrote a book that used the cachet of "hacking" to sell impressionable youths on the idea of working for him in a tech-adjacent position. By appealing to someone's desires and by giving your thing a unique je ne sais quoi (no matter how flimsy it really is) you can influence them into your personal brand of chasing their desires.