When I read that you could use Quicksilver with Twitter, I felt as excited as Jack Bauer in an interrogation room full of terror suspects. It all started with Twitter Fan Wiki. And then I lost myself in hours of troubleshooting as I tried to force … [Read more...]
Top 10 Twitter DOs and DON’Ts
You've got a blog. You've got email, SMS, and IM. These are great tools for communication. Email and text messaging are two-way conversations. Blogging is mostly a one-to-many conversation. But what about something in-between? Twitter is part … [Read more...]
How Your Mind Codes Time and Why You Should Know
Time lines are particularly useful to Life Hackers. Since productivity is all about planning the future, putting finished things into the past, and figuring out what to do with the present, it is extremely important to understand how your mind codes … [Read more...]
How To Hack The Election – And Get Away With It!
American computer programmer Clinton Eugene Curtis is seen in this video testifying under oath in front of the U.S. House Judiciary Members in Ohio. I'm shocked that this doesn't get more coverage. The possibility of an election being hacked … [Read more...]
Scott Adams ‘Hacks’ His Brain
This is an amazing story. First the Dilbert creator loses his voice due to a rare condition known as spasmodic dysphonia. Now he reveals in an amazingly affecting personal blog post how he learned to speak again. In Bodyhack. Full link: Scott … [Read more...]
Hacking Your Musical Strategies Day 5: Composing Strategies
Find another musician or composer -- and with their permission -- elicit the strategy they use to choose what to compose or the strategy they are using to compose a current piece of music. Use their strategy to decide what you are going to compose or … [Read more...]
How Do You Control Your Beliefs So They Don’t Control You?
Is it possible to restructure, unlearn or change old beliefs that may be limiting us and imprint new ones that can expand our potential beyond what we currently imagine? If so, how do we do it? And what exactly is a belief? The dictionary defines a … [Read more...]
Hacking Your Musical Strategies Day 4: Comparing Strategies
Elicit from another musician their strategy for choosing what to practice each day. Make sure that you have a detailed sequence and make sure that it is a very different strategy from yours (if it isn't, choose someone else). Use their strategy for … [Read more...]
Hacking Your Musical Strategies Day 3: Learning Strategies
Access a learning state fully. Remember a specific time when you were a virtual learning machine. What can you tell about your learning strategy? How do you know when it is time to learn something new? What internal steps do you take to ensure that … [Read more...]
What Are Submodalities?
The Building Blocks of Experience Today we're stepping out of our boxes. We're going to experience some things you wouldn't think had anything to do with your self-concept. I'm going to make it abundantly clear just how important this information is … [Read more...]