One thing I remember from watching the Inbox Zero presentation [1] by Merlin Mann a couple of years ago was the analogy he used involving a burger joint.
Paraphrasing, he said that lifehacking is similar to optimizing the process of taking orders and organizing them, but at some point those orders actually need to be fulfilled. Otherwise you'll end up with a lot of angry customers, who don't care about what awesome optimizations you're doing behind the scenes!
This is not to say that lifehacking is useless. Rather, the emphasis is that ultimately, you have to get things done.
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One thing I remember from watching the Inbox Zero presentation [1] by Merlin Mann a couple of years ago was the analogy he used involving a burger joint.
Paraphrasing, he said that lifehacking is similar to optimizing the process of taking orders and organizing them, but at some point those orders actually need to be fulfilled. Otherwise you'll end up with a lot of angry customers, who don't care about what awesome optimizations you're doing behind the scenes!
This is not to say that lifehacking is useless. Rather, the emphasis is that ultimately, you have to get things done.
[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9UjeTMb3Yk