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Delegate Your Time Sinks and Reclaim Your Day

What’s the number one most effective way to make more time in your day? Get other people to do the things you’d normally be doing. Many people complain that there aren’t enough hours in the day when the problem is simply that there are too many tasks ...

From JOEL FALCONER, Lifehack,  29 Apr 2009

Overplanning Can Kill Your Business Idea

Most articles about starting a business cover planning. Creating your business plan. Creating your marketing plan. Creating page upon page of plans, plans with great intentions and perhaps excellent potential for success. There’s nothing wrong with ...

From JOEL FALCONER, Lifehack,  27 Apr 2009

Calculating the Optimal Workday Length

There’s a lot of information out there on achieving work-life balance, and a common productivity suggestion is that you structure your workday. I’ve found that one invaluable tool for getting these two things dealt with effectively is knowing not just ...

From JOEL FALCONER, Lifehack,  22 Apr 2009

Know When to Unplug From the Internet

I’ve recently had a very troublesome realization about my line of work. I’m the managing editor for a few websites and a contributing editor for a few others. Websites happen to be on the Internet; a job that revolves around websites tends to require ...

From JOEL FALCONER, Lifehack,  20 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Cory Doctorow

10 Reasons Paper is The Most Flexible Productivity Platform

Lifehack’s theme for April is productivity without power. I don’t know about you but those words instantly bring one word to mind: paper. Whether it’s a Moleskine, index cards, a regular notebook or just loose-leaf, paper can be one of the most ...

From JOEL FALCONER, Lifehack,  15 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Moleskine

Social Proof: The Worst Enemy That Lives in Your Head

The concept of “social proof” (or informational social influence, if you’re a sadist for typing) tells us that, often subconsciously, individuals will look to the other people around them in ambiguous social situations to determine the appropriate way ...

From JOEL FALCONER, Lifehack,  13 Apr 2009

3 Scary Misconceptions About Money

It’s strange that for a society that’s so focused on making money and owning assets, we have some pretty unusual and downright scary approaches to the stuff and how it comes into our possession. Money doesn’t grow on trees, but we give our children and ...

From JOEL FALCONER, Lifehack,  8 Apr 2009

Shattering A Few Myths About Copyright

It is unfortunate that people don’t know as much as they should about intellectual property rights. One day recently I briefly checked in to Twitter to see a discussion on the matter — a discussion that was propagating misinformed ideas. You might see ...

From JOEL FALCONER, Lifehack,  6 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Would You Be a Perpetual Traveler or a World Citizen?

From here, there are two ways you can go. You can become a perpetual traveler or you can become a world citizen. What’s a perpetual traveler anyway? In a nutshell, a person who designs their life so that they’re not the legal resident of any of the ...

From JOEL FALCONER, Lifehack,  1 Apr 2009

The Freedom to Travel Anywhere, Anytime Without Getting Fired

It was the 28th of January this year, early in the morning. My wife had just pushed me out of bed so I’d get ready in time for our flight. It wasn’t at the forefront of my mind, but I was nervous: this was the first time I was going to be working ...

From JOEL FALCONER, Lifehack,  30 Mar 2009

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