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Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact

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Re: Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact

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Post by staz »

hacktheplanetx wrote: post #4

I wake up to my hacker alarm clock, quickly hack myself up and go to shower, I hack through it quickly and hack myself dry with a towel. Then I proceed to hack my socks, pants and other hacker essentials before hacking my commute to work. I'm already late, so I need to hack myself and sprint to the trainstation. Hacking away at some wordpress themes and finally a master hack to change the colorscheme of my xterm.

I have done a translation for the non hackers:

    I wake up to my smurf alarm clock, quickly smurf myself 
    up and go to shower, I smurf through it quickly and smurf
    myself dry with a towel. Then I proceed to smurf my 
    socks, pants and other smurf essentials before smurfing
    my commute to work.

    I'm already late, so I need to smurf myself and sprint
    to the trainstation.

    Smurfing away at some wordpress themes and finally a
    master smurf to change the colorscheme of my xterm.

Re: Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact

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Post by fsiefken »

andygcook wrote: post #7

I developed a similar system to this last year, but instead of defining my tasks for the week, I'd just choose the three most important tasks I wanted to get done for the day at the beginning of each morning. If I got my three tasks done, it was a productive day and anything else I did was gravy. If I didn't, I forced myself to look back at what I spent my time on that day. The three-task system helped me get focused…

That's similar to the ZenToDone system with the 3 daily MIT's (most important things) http://zenhabits.net/purpose-your-day-most-important-task/ There is an iphone app

Re: Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact

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Post by marban »

hacktheplanetx wrote: post #4

I wake up to my hacker alarm clock, quickly hack myself up and go to shower, I hack through it quickly and hack myself dry with a towel. Then I proceed to hack my socks, pants and other hacker essentials before hacking my commute to work. I'm already late, so I need to hack myself and sprint to the trainstation. Hacking away at some wordpress themes and finally a master hack to change the colorscheme of my xterm.

And yet no time for Growth Hacking?

Re: Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact

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Post by andygcook »

fsiefken wrote: post #12
andygcook wrote: post #7

I developed a similar system to this last year, but instead of defining my tasks for the week, I'd just choose the three most important tasks I wanted to get done for the day at the beginning of each morning. If I got my three tasks done, it was a productive day and anything else I did was gravy. If I didn't, I forced myself to look back at what I spent my time on that day. The three-task system helped me get focused…

That's similar to the ZenToDone system with the 3 daily MIT's (most important things) http://zenhabits.net/purpose-your-day-most-important-task/ There is an iphone app

Thanks for sharing. I didn't know about this one and will check it out.

Re: Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact

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Post by andygcook »

rhodin wrote: post #9
andygcook wrote: post #7

I developed a similar system to this last year, but instead of defining my tasks for the week, I'd just choose the three most important tasks I wanted to get done for the day at the beginning of each morning. If I got my three tasks done, it was a productive day and anything else I did was gravy. If I didn't, I forced myself to look back at what I spent my time on that day. The three-task system helped me get focused…

Nice site. On the front page it would be nice to see what it looks like after a couple of weeks using: will the user see a "heat map" of activities done/not done?

Thanks! I'm working on designing a heat map feature similar to GitHub commits that'll show you a historical record of how you're doing over time.

My eventual plan is to build a team version, so instead of asking your teammates, "what are you working on today?" you could just check out their three most important tasks. There would also be a weekly wrap up email sharing who did what for the week.

Re: Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact

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Post by grandalf »

- I spend a few minutes before bed reading/thinking about the thing I'm going to do the next morning.

- The sooner I start hacking after waking up in the morning the better.

- I wake up an hour earlier than necessary and hack from a coffee shop (with a press pot) before my commute starts.

- I budget the time during my commute (train) in 5-10 minute goal-oriented intervals.

- I listen to Bach piano contrapunctus if the ambient noise gets distracting. I find it hard to get enter the zone quickly with a hiphop mix or any kind of hipster music.

Re: Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact

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Post by tachyonbeam »

hacktheplanetx wrote: post #4

I wake up to my hacker alarm clock, quickly hack myself up and go to shower, I hack through it quickly and hack myself dry with a towel. Then I proceed to hack my socks, pants and other hacker essentials before hacking my commute to work. I'm already late, so I need to hack myself and sprint to the trainstation. Hacking away at some wordpress themes and finally a master hack to change the colorscheme of my xterm.

And my personal motto is "Hack the Planet!"

Re: Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact

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Post by Zelphyr »

tachyonbeam wrote: post #18
hacktheplanetx wrote: post #4

I wake up to my hacker alarm clock, quickly hack myself up and go to shower, I hack through it quickly and hack myself dry with a towel. Then I proceed to hack my socks, pants and other hacker essentials before hacking my commute to work. I'm already late, so I need to hack myself and sprint to the trainstation. Hacking away at some wordpress themes and finally a master hack to change the colorscheme of my xterm.

And my personal motto is "Hack the Planet!"

Feh. I'm happy just hacking the Gibson.

Re: Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact

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Post by ultramancool »

tachyonbeam wrote: post #18
hacktheplanetx wrote: post #4

I wake up to my hacker alarm clock, quickly hack myself up and go to shower, I hack through it quickly and hack myself dry with a towel. Then I proceed to hack my socks, pants and other hacker essentials before hacking my commute to work. I'm already late, so I need to hack myself and sprint to the trainstation. Hacking away at some wordpress themes and finally a master hack to change the colorscheme of my xterm.

And my personal motto is "Hack the Planet!"

But The Planet is part of Softlayer now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planet_Internet_Services

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