Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geeks
Feb 13, 2004
People sometimes wonder why I don't use Moveable Type to get things like trackback. Others wonder why my site is idiosyncratic - wouldn't 'Comment on this Item' be clearer than 'Reflect'? Others gripe about being "dissed" in these pages and think that maybe I should hold back a little. Well, here's a secret: this website, and with it, this newsletter, is a 'life hack'. Like this: "Geeks write scripts to take apart dull, repetitive tasks. They'll spend 10h writing a script that will save 11h -- because writing scripts is interesting and doing dull stuff isn't." OLDaily is my notebook, my store of interesting stuff I want to remember. That's why it comes with a searchable database (that I now have to spend another 10h improving) where, say, Blogger has nothing. That's why it includes completely useless applications, like Edu_RSS Chat. So why is it public? "Ideas rot if you don't do something with them.CRLFDon't hoard them. I blog them or otherwise tell people. This is a way to look organized, "That guy has lots of ideas, what a genius." So now you know. It's all a hack. It will get better when it gets better and it will never be anything other than a direct pipeline from my brain to my computer, without editing for politeness, and with thousands of people looking in, because maybe, just maybe, what interests me will interest you, and what occurs to me may not have occurred to you. Thanks to Roland, who also cites Secret Software, for the link.
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