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Hacking Life - Systematized Living and Its Discontents (Hardcover)
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Hacking Life - Systematized Living and Its Discontents (Hardcover)
Series: Strong Ideas
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In an effort to keep up with a world of too much, life hackers
sometimes risk going too far. Life hackers track and analyze the
food they eat, the hours they sleep, the money they spend, and how
they're feeling on any given day. They share tips on the most
efficient ways to tie shoelaces and load the dishwasher; they
employ a tomato-shaped kitchen timer as a time-management tool.They
see everything as a system composed of parts that can be decomposed
and recomposed, with algorithmic rules that can be understood,
optimized, and subverted. In Hacking Life, Joseph Reagle examines
these attempts to systematize living and finds that they are the
latest in a long series of self-improvement methods. Life hacking,
he writes, is self-help for the digital age's creative class.
Reagle chronicles the history of life hacking, from Benjamin
Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack through Stephen Covey's 7 Habits
of Highly Effective People and Timothy Ferriss's The 4-Hour
Workweek. He describes personal outsourcing, polyphasic sleep, the
quantified self movement, and hacks for pickup artists. Life hacks
can be useful, useless, and sometimes harmful (for example, if you
treat others as cogs in your machine). Life hacks have strengths
and weaknesses, which are sometimes like two sides of a coin: being
efficient is not the same thing as being effective; being precious
about minimalism does not mean you are living life unfettered; and
compulsively checking your vital signs is its own sort of illness.
With Hacking Life, Reagle sheds light on a question even
non-hackers ponder: what does it mean to live a good life in the
new millennium?
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