[Millennium]

He does have a point, though. Lifehacking was supposed to be a means to an end: a way to get more time to oneself by finding more effective ways to deal with the daily chores and other "maintenance" tasks. But for far too many, it has become an end and itself: the time gained back from lifehacks gets reinvested into LIFEHACK MOAR, and we become slaves to routine in the very way we were trying to escape. That wasn't the point.

What lifehacks are awesome for, though, is getting your life straightened out. If you're like a lot of geeks, you can probably identify one or two things that you've let fall by the wayside in the quest for more time that you really shouldn't have. But now, you're having more trouble Just Doing Them back into your life. Lifehacks present an alternate approach to these tasks: a way to do them that breaks the psychological associations that led you to stop doing them in the first place. That can be a very powerful thing. So next time you decide to tackle that task, try a lifehacked approach. It really helps.

[dwc]

Yes, many things do become ends unto themselves. This is why I read only the occasional life hack, or life pro tip. It's become a fetish. It's less about optimizing your life than being able to say that you're a lifehacker. The same thing largely applies to the so-called "maker" culture.

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Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1205/

[Blahah]

Maybe for some it was a means to the end of getting more free time. But some of us love our work, and want to fill our time with it. Lifehacks are a way to be able to waste less time, doing what we love more effectively.