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Life Hacks Live: Cory's Notes

Merlin Mann | Mar 17 2005

Life Hacks Live : Danny O'Brien
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Life Hacks Live

Cory has posted his excellent notes from our talk at ETech today.

Danny: I had a TV show in deep cable called 404 NOT FOUND. We obsessed with the segues, “That was a cold way of chilling your computer and another cold thing is penguins and now Linux” — we used to obsess about these.

The good thing that came out of this was before commercials, my co-presenter Dave Green would turn to the camera and say, “And now, a few short films about capitalism.”

And now a few short presentations about Life Hacks. I’m using a 10 minute timer to ensure that I talk as fast as possible.

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TOPICS: Elsewhere, Life Hacks

Remainders: Vim, The One-Fork Rule, dashes, and ETech, ho!

Merlin Mann | Mar 14 2005

ETech ahead: expect delays, next seven days.

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TOPICS: Apple, Macs & OS X, Life Hacks, Mac OS X, Personal Productivity, Remainders, Tips, Tricks, Unix and The Command Line

Stever Robbins on email overload

Merlin Mann | Mar 10 2005

Great article on dealing with high email volume that focuses on what you can do to craft email messages that are easy to process, read, and answer.

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TOPICS: Email, Life Hacks, Personal Productivity, Project Work, Tips

Lifehacker: Canadian Press Secretary on his HPDA

Merlin Mann | Mar 9 2005

Gina talks with Ian Capstick, who coordinates complex press interactions for NDP party MPs using a favorite tool of ours.

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TOPICS: Elsewhere, Index Cards, Inspirado, Life Hacks, Personal Productivity

Giles Turnbull on Macs & GTD

Merlin Mann | Mar 8 2005

Giles was able to use some bits from email exchanges we had in his very good intro to using Macs for GTD. I especially like the tools overview.

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TOPICS: Apple, Macs & OS X, Elsewhere, Getting Things Done, Mac OS X, Personal Productivity

Reminder: ETech and "Life Hacks Live" next week

Merlin Mann | Mar 8 2005

Etech next week; fun stuff coming.

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TOPICS: Admin, Elsewhere, Life Hacks, Personal Productivity

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