Hacking life : : systematized living and its discontents / / Joseph M. Reagle, Jr.

• Superior document: Strong ideas
• VerfasserIn: Reagle, Joseph Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge : : MIT Press,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Strong ideas.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (217 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

Life hacking as self-help for the creative class in the digital age: using systems in pursuit of health, wealth, and productivity. 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...

Table of Contents

• Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1
• Introduction; Life Hacking Geeks and Gurus; Practical Philosophy, Self-Help, and Systems; Life Hacking's Shades of Gray; Nominal, Optimal, and Near Enemies; 2
• The Life Hackers; Alpha Geeks and Authorpreneurs; 43 Folders and Getting Things Done; Lifehacker and the Rational Style; The 4-Hour Workweek and Lifestyle Design; Life Nomadic and Superhuman; 3
• Hacking Time; Time Thrift; "Schedule Your Priorities"; Polyphasic Sleep; "Quadrupled My Productivity"; Privilege and Exploitation; Beggars in Spain; 4
• Hacking Motivation; The Science of Motivation
• Productivity Porn; The Reproducibility Crisis; Odyssean Goal Tracking; The Rat Race; 5
• Hacking Stuff; Gear Lists and the Whole Earth Catalog; The "Californian Ideology" and Cool Tools; "Masculine, Entrepreneurial, Well-Educated, and White"; From Much to Minimal; The Counting Nomad versus KonMari; The Dilemma of Stuff; Minimalism and Millionaires; 6
• Hacking Health; Data's Meaning; The Transhuman Roots of Becoming Superhuman; "Butter Makes Me Smarter"; Experts, Experience, and Uncertainty; Supplements and Self-Help; It Works for Me; Soylent, Choice, and Control; Wanting to Believe
• 7
• Hacking Relationships"Why I Will Never Have a Girlfriend"; The Origins of Pickup; Optimal: Two Bisexual HB10s; Nominal: The Challenge of Being Likable; Data and Dating; Yootling and Marriage; "You Are Doing It Wrong"; The Right Tools for the Job; 8
• Hacking Meaning; The Ancient Stoics; Stoicism's Translators; The Stoic Life Hacker; Mindfulness and Its Translators; Apps, Gadgets, and Woo; Look Outside Yourself; Lost in Translation; 9
• Blinkered; "I Choose Me"; Bending the Rules; The Blinkered Path; Notes; 1
• Introduction; 2
• The Life Hackers; 3
• Hacking Time; 4
• Hacking Motivation
• 5
• Hacking Stuff; 6
• Hacking Health; 7
• Hacking Relationships; 8
• Hacking Meaning; 9
• Blinkered; Index