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Dave Gray: "The lifehacker's dilemma"

The lifehacker's dilemma
The lifehacker’s dilemma
Originally uploaded by dgray_xplane.

Dave sums it all up nicely, as far as I’m concerned.

(N.B.: the paper-based crotchal coverage hack.)


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Day 1 of Summerwork... (the entries...

Day 1 of Summerwork…

(the entries about dance as a metaphor for life are going to have to wait for some updates as this workshop here unfolds) Today the summerwork started. It’s a workshop created by Doug Rosenberg that is designed to mimic, to…

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Does he know he’s being made fun of?…

Check out David Gray’s drawing of the ‘Lifehacker’s Dilemma.’ (Better treatment of lifehacking here.) Hipster-therapeutic blogger Merlin Mann says Gray ‘sums it all up nicely.’ Oddly enough, I don’t think he’s being ironic. And I don’t think t…

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Merlin Mann is an independent writer, speaker, and broadcaster. He’s best known for being the guy who started the website you’re reading right now. He lives in San Francisco, does lots of public speaking, and helps make cool things like You Look Nice Today. Also? He looks like this, answers questions, and has something like a life.

Merlin’s favorite thing he’s written recently is a short essay called, “Better.”

 
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