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The Life Hack of Lifehacks
What do Information and Food have in common?
The short version
Written information is the lifehack that has made civilization possible. But now information overwhelms us at an individual level. The lifehack of lifehacks is to deliberately select the information that you process. You do this be creating filters for information and a process to select it.
Information from others allows you learn as if you lived a million lives. But be careful from whom you learn. You can learn stupidity easier than wisdom.
The in-depth version
We are obsessed with life hacks
Lifehacker.com has 12 Million monthly visits. The lifehacks subreddit has 5.4 Million members. Searching for ‘lifehacks’ on Google returns 70 Million results.
Most lifehacks youn find online are garbage. Things like ‘Eat More Vegetables by Mixing Them Into Cream Cheese’ , ’13 Ways to Spring Clean When You’re Lazy’ or ‘How to Find (Good) Sex Advice on TikTok’. If you are curious, the last one boils down to ‘look at content from good sources’.
Most of these lifehacks are either not insightful, or they are useful only in specific situations.
