Title image remixed from MARSIL (Shutterstock) and sspopov (Shutterstock). ![]() It’s something more of us would like to see than you realize.Google’s decision to shut down Google Reader means you’ll need to find a new way to get your news fix. Just take off the skis they don’t go with the leather jacket.īring back the “happy days” of Lifehacker. You can still “unjump the shark” if you want. Then you strapped on those water skis so that you could pull off a stunt that no one who cared about you really wanted to see you do. Lifehacker…you were The Fonz of the productivity realm. Now I long for what was, and feel for those who built a great resource as it loses its way - and loses the readers it initially served for those who show up sporadically to figure out how to avoid giving out candy on October 31st. Your site used to be one I revered, sitting prominently amongst those I read daily. Offer help where it’s needed, not where it isn’t. Not every aspect of life warrants a lifehack. I am writing this now to appeal to the Lifehacker team to get back to their roots. If you want to read my stuff, it’ll get found. Frankly, that doesn’t matter to me any longer. The only reason I refrained from doing so is the traffic that Lifehacker (and Gawker sites in general) was always helpful. But I’ve wanted to write this since I started working for The Next Web years ago. Yes, I did work for one of Lifehacker’s rivals. Let’s give that type of timesaver to the sites who are competing with TMZ, shall we? The same with knowing your rights when it comes allegations of shoplifting - advising on how to deal with any sort of criminal activities is a lifehack that I think most Lifehacker readers from the good ol’ Trapani era can do without. But couldn’t (and shouldn’t) we be leaving that to websites that focus on food? Can’t they have that to themselves? Why else would food articles show up so damn regularly? I get it. We speed up enough already, and most people are looking to hack the mundane in their lives rather than the act of eating a burger.Īs far as I can tell, the Lifehacker that exists now is trying to be everything to everyone. Not everything needs to have a lifehack attached to it. As a friend suggested when I ranted about this particular “lifehack”, turn over the damn sandwich.Ĭommon sense is not a lifehack.You have bigger problems to deal with if you needed to read about this tactic on a website.There are a couple of responses I have to this: Granted, some would argue that lettuce placement on a sandwich does serve to manage one’s time in a more efficient manner. “…a strategy or technique adopted in order to manage one’s time and daily activities in a more efficient way.” – via Oxford Dictionary Hey, I’ll help you out by posting it below: It’d be justified if they actually read the definition - and applied it to their content. ![]() I distinctly remember Lifehacker giddy with joy when the term they claim to espouse made it into the dictionary. Giving tips on keeping unwanted trick-or-treaters at bay is not a lifehack. Offering a “how to” on how to deal with being detained as a shoplifting suspect is not a lifehack. Strategically placing your lettuce on a burger to avoid unwanted seepage is not a lifehack. Somewhere along the line “they” decided that anything and everything could be spun as a lifehack. He’s an expert and if anyone can help grow a productivity movement in the mainstream, it’s him. And it’s so much better that he’s writing about being productive rather than “doing” productive, because that’s what he was all about in the first place (in my mind, at least).ĭavid Allen’s stuff is still a part of my diet, and he’s stayed on course. It caught me off guard…but it shouldn’t have, really. Merlin’s new direction at 43Folders delivered freshness to my RSS feed that usually consisted of lifehackery and the like. If anything, it drew me in that much more. Merlin Mann shifted gears, but did so in a way that seemed imminent. I wouldn’t have gotten to where I am today without having those resources. That site, along with Merlin Mann’s 43Folders and David Allen’s body of work were the catalysts for my writing career. In fact, it’d be one of the places that helped get me into this whole productivity racket. I used to be an avid reader of Lifehacker.īack when Gina Trapani ran things, I got a lot out of the site.
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