The aim defeats the purpose
Life hacking is a pursuit of the “creative class,” an exercise in box-ticking.
The ingenuity behind so many life hacking schemes could make one a more effective promoter for social improvement. The focus of hacking life is on hacking the self, but the focus is on a rather bland and limited part of the self in the process.
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