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The Time Travel Paradox

#unhack going into sci-fi ponderings? No, not quite. There is a thought, raised by time travel stories, source unfortunately no longer known (to me), that fits only too well into the theme of life skills, habits, and anti-life hacks… That…

The Perfect Schedule: Make Time

Supposedly, if you want to get something done, you have to put it on your schedule. If you schedule everything about your life, you will get on with it.

Live Your Life, Not Someone Else’s Schedule

Of course we would be fascinated by successful people’s schedules and habits and … even the things they eat. Examples, Not Blueprints We are social primates, after all. As such, it’s monkey-see-monkey-do, especially when we see what is being done…

Don’t Listen To Your (Online) Feelings.

It should be obvious in this age of outrage-fueled social media. Unfortunately, it is also a time of personal truths. The personal truths that aren’t things we learn or feel about ourselves. “Personal truths” that are just what people say…

What Gets Measured… Must First Matter

One problem with the recent kind of personal development: The way life tracking goes wrong in its fascination with data. It is nicely visible in its fondness for measurements. Measure The popular quote that summarizes it is “What gets measured…

Hell Yes or No? Meh.

Some people really do need to learn to say No. Many of us seem to say Yes to too much, too easily. The advice that it’s got to be either “Hell, yes! or No“, though? That’s a bunch of bs.…

Do You Even Lift… The Average of the Five Friends That You Are?

Do you even lift... the average of your friends?

You can’t choose your family (except you can and should, in a way), but you can choose your friends. And you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with, the supposedly wise phrase says. You…

There’s Magic in Beginning. And Misery.

The (supposed) Goethe quote that beginnings are imbued with a magic and power is a nice one. Certainly you’ve felt it too; how good it feels to get started. If everything is going well and you get going nicely, it’s…

The Time Travel Paradox

The Perfect Schedule: Make Time

Live Your Life, Not Someone Else’s Schedule

Don’t Listen To Your (Online) Feelings.

What Gets Measured… Must First Matter

Recommended Reading: “The Useless Agony of Going Offline”

Hell Yes or No? Meh.

Do You Even Lift… The Average of the Five Friends That You Are?

Recommended Reading: “Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless”

There’s Magic in Beginning. And Misery.

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