![]() ![]() He describes personal outsourcing, polyphasic sleep, the quantified self movement, and hacks for pickup artists. Reagle chronicles the history of life hacking, from Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack through Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and Timothy Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek. Life hacking, he writes, is self-help for the digital age's creative class. In Hacking Life, Joseph Reagle examines these attempts to systematize living and finds that they are the latest in a long series of self-improvement methods. They share tips on the most efficient ways to tie shoelaces and load the dishwasher they employ a tomato-shaped kitchen timer as a time-management tool.They see everything as a system composed of parts that can be decomposed and recomposed, with algorithmic rules that can be understood, optimized, and subverted. 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. In an effort to keep up with a world of too much, life hackers sometimes risk going too far. Download Hacking Life Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle ![]()
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