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The Pros and Cons of...

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The Pros and Cons of...

Submitted by Sample Reality (not verified) on August 4, 2006 - 1:01am.

The Pros and Cons of Life Hacking…

I’ve been meaning to blog about Clive Thompson’s NYT Magazine article on life hacking for a week now, but, as it happens, I’ve been operating on “continuous partial attention” myself since, oh, I don’t know, weeks, months, maybe years even…….

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Back to GTD: Simplify your contexts By: Merlin Mann (54 replies) July 31, 2006 - 1:24am
  • [...] It mightn’t surprise you... By: What would you ask David Allen? | 43 Folders (2006-08-08 04:19)
  • I've started using virtual desktops... By: scottp (2006-08-08 05:47)
  • I have 3 contexts. ... By: Peter Risser (2006-08-03 05:31)
  • Another great post Merlin. Your... By: Terrence (2006-08-02 06:10)
  • These have been working quite... By: Rod Greenshields (2006-07-31 05:59)
  • I'm a writer working at... By: Podophile (2006-07-31 06:55)
  • For people who have very... By: BMEguy (2006-07-31 08:32)
  • My only contexts are: @pc @work @home @phone @car I'm a... By: Mark (2006-07-31 08:46)
  • I'm a graduate student in... By: Alex (2006-07-31 09:19)
  • As a small-scale IT projects... By: Rondolino (2006-07-31 09:27)
  • I'm a designer/developer and general... By: John Zeratsky (2006-07-31 09:37)
  • @BMEguy: I think you're on... By: Sam (2006-07-31 10:10)
  • I find that I work... By: Cari (2006-07-31 03:08)
  • You want to be a... By: NineTailedFox (2006-07-31 03:13)
  • Writer here. I struggled with... By: Matthew (2006-07-31 04:32)
  • Nice post, Merlin! I'm... By: Paul (2006-07-31 04:41)
  • From the perspective of a... By: Daniel Liu (2006-07-31 04:55)
  • Also from the college student... By: Jon Bohlinger (2006-07-31 05:37)
  • What if some of you... By: kreatix (2006-07-31 03:05)
  • I like the idea above... By: Ben Brophy (2006-07-31 02:46)
  • Very good series. Just what... By: Ryan Richards (2006-07-31 02:35)
  • I find tagging by time... By: NineTailedFox (2006-07-31 02:35)
  • I keep my lists in... By: Brad (2006-08-02 06:44)
  • Brad, you must spend a... By: Paul (2006-08-02 08:02)
  • [...] ?????????????????????“??”?????????????????????“???”??????“ By: GTD??“??” » ???-LifeBang (2006-08-02 02:13)
  • Bravo. More than any single... By: Scott (2006-08-02 01:58)
  • [...] Merlin’s recent post on... By: Changing Way » Blog Archive » GTD in Context (2006-08-01 17:22)
  • I have 2 contexts: @work @home @home is... By: henry (2006-08-01 13:44)
  • Oops, some of my post... By: Matt (2006-08-01 07:34)
  • I just started GTD but... By: Matt (2006-08-01 07:32)
  • question related to this for... By: brendon (2006-08-01 06:29)
  • I'm obviously not a terribly... By: ej (2006-08-01 00:41)
  • That last one was supposed... By: Mark Morgan (2006-07-31 17:18)
  • Since I have a cell... By: Mark Morgan (2006-07-31 17:16)
  • Plain text works really well.... By: NineTailedFox (2006-07-31 14:07)
  • I've been thinking about it,... By: Nick (2006-07-31 15:14)
  • ok, freaking out here...had just... By: Casey (2006-08-04 16:36)
  • Wow, lots of really good... By: Chris White (2006-08-04 15:52)
  • Some links, sone techy, some... By: Dan's Archive (2006-08-04 10:26)
  • I'm a UI designer, and... By: melissa (2006-08-04 08:10)
  • The Pros and Cons of... By: Sample Reality (2006-08-04 01:01)
  • [...] Working at home, and... By: GTD and Contexts at Redomestication (2006-08-03 18:14)
  • Paul, the "@office-onhold" context has... By: Brad (2006-08-03 12:06)
  • Another Interactive Designer (and Producer-Singer-Actor),... By: Micah (2006-08-05 02:43)
  • Oh. Crap. Three of my... By: Micah (2006-08-05 02:44)
  • Yeah, I just noticed it... By: Chris White (2006-08-05 08:32)
  • I'll probably be drummed out... By: Joy (2006-08-05 08:37)
  • I'd actually nearly given up... By: Luhmann (2006-08-05 20:57)
  • This is the hard part... By: druqbar (2006-08-06 03:13)
  • Sorry for being picky, but... By: Herman the German (2006-08-06 14:36)
  • Alex, wouldn't that just aggravate... By: Sunnan (2006-08-06 21:46)
  • sorry - in the above... By: Brent (2006-08-08 13:15)
  • @Brent (no, this is not... By: Herman the German (2006-08-09 16:05)
  • This is the hard part... By: Brent (2006-08-08 13:13)
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