life hack

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Wikipedia has an entry for “Life hack” that presents a claim about the
origin of the term:

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

[Begin excerpt]
British technology journalist Danny O'Brien coined the term life hack
after polling a group of productive geeks on the details of their work
processes.[4] O'Brien discovered a pattern among these
super-productive programmers: that they devised and used
"embarrassing" scripts and shortcuts to get their work done.[2]
[End excerpt]

Interview: father of “life hacks” Danny O’Brien
http://lifehacker.com/36370/interview-father-of-life-hacks-danny-obrie

Hacking Toward Happiness
By Jeremy Caplan
June 21, 2007 Time magazine
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1635844,00.html


On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
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