Anti-Hacking Your Life
I’m a geek, and like all good geeks, I love new shiny gadgets. I like creative and unexpected uses of technology. I like things that pander to my short attention span, distract me just long enough to wreck my train of thought, and then fade away into obscurity. Needless to say, I’m a GTD victim.
I enjoy all the usual lifehack sites. I’ve read David Allen’s books. I’ve used Remember the Milk, Nozbe, Sandy, Jott, and others I don’t remember at the moment. I’ve done paper based productivity systems, online productivity systems, systems on Windows and systems on Mac. The only consistent thing about them is the fact that they’ve generally survived for about a week before I’ve moved on to the next new shiny system. I’ve managed to fall into the trap of spending more time tweaking the system than actually doing anything.
Apparently, I’m far from alone in this respect. I recently found The Growing Life, a great site that helps put things into perspective for gadget obsessed geeks like me. A recent post, The Life Hack Misnomer, is one of my all-time favorites. I’d already figured out that I needed to step back and reassess my approach to productivity, but Craig kind of drove the point home.
I’m not likely to stop reading Lifehacker, and I’m certain that there are new and shinier gadgets waiting to distract me. I am, however,
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