Life hack, the Glossary
A life hack (or life hacking) is any trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that increases productivity and efficiency, in all walks of life.[1]
Table of Contents
23 relations: American Dialect Society, Command-line interface, Danny O'Brien (journalist), Efficiency, Email, Information overload, Jugaad, Kitchen hack, Kludge, Lexico, MacGyver in popular culture, Make (magazine), Merlin Mann, Mung (computer term), O'Reilly Media, Podcast, Productivity, RSS, San Diego, Scripting language, Self-help, Shell script, Urawaza.
- Do it yourself
- Life skills
American Dialect Society
The American Dialect Society (ADS), founded in 1889, is a learned society "dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it." The Society publishes the academic journal American Speech.
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Command-line interface
A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command-lines.
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Danny O'Brien (journalist)
Danny O'Brien (born 1969) is a British technology journalist and civil liberties activist.
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Efficiency
Efficiency is the often measurable ability to avoid making mistakes or wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time while performing a task.
Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices.
Information overload
Information overload (also known as infobesity, infoxication, or information anxiety) is the difficulty in understanding an issue and effectively making decisions when one has too much information (TMI) about that issue, and is generally associated with the excessive quantity of daily information.
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Jugaad
Jugaaḍ (or jugaaṛ) is a non-conventional, frugal innovation, in Indian subcontinent.
Kitchen hack
A kitchen hack, also known as a food hack, is a technique used by home cooks and professionals to make food preparation tasks easier, faster, or more efficient. Life hack and kitchen hack are Life skills.
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Kludge
A kludge or kluge is a workaround or makeshift solution that is clumsy, inelegant, inefficient, difficult to extend, and hard to maintain.
Lexico
Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
MacGyver in popular culture
MacGyver is an American television series that ran from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.
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Make (magazine)
Make (stylized as Make: or MAKE) is an American magazine published since February 2005 which focuses on Do It Yourself (DIY) and/or Do It With Others (DIWO) projects involving computers, electronics, metalworking, robotics, woodworking and other disciplines.
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Merlin Mann
Merlin Dean Mann III (born November 26, 1966) is an American writer, blogger, and podcaster.
Mung (computer term)
Mung or munge is computer jargon for a series of potentially destructive or irrevocable changes to a piece of data or a file.
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O'Reilly Media, Inc. (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly provides technical and professional skills development courses via an online learning platform.
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Podcast
A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet.
Productivity
Productivity is the efficiency of production of goods or services expressed by some measure.
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RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format.
San Diego
San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.
Scripting language
In computing, a script is a relatively short and simple set of instructions that typically automate an otherwise manual process.
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Self-help
Self-help or self-improvement is a self-directed improvement of oneself—economically, physically, intellectually, or emotionally—often with a substantial psychological basis.
Shell script
A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by a Unix shell, a command-line interpreter.
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Urawaza
An urawaza (裏技, meaning "secret trick") is a quirky, ingenious technique that optimizes an everyday activity like cleaning up spills, preventing odors, or folding laundry.
See also
Do it yourself
- 3D printing
- Arm knitting
- Bricolage
- Building Wild
- Composting
- DIY audio
- DIY culture
- DIY medicine
- DIYbio (organization)
- DiY networking
- Do it yourself
- Do-it-yourself biology
- Eli Whitney Museum
- Fixer-upper
- Gainclone
- Hacker culture
- Handmade Arcade
- Hiromi (comedian)
- IFixit
- IOIO
- Kipkay
- Kit house
- Ladderax
- Life hack
- LittleBits
- MIDIbox
- Michael Laufer
- Paul Nooncree Hasluck
- Rendered (radio program)
- Sam Labs
- Sartre's Sink
- Self-build
- The Appropriate Technology Library
- This Old House
- Uppercase (magazine)
Life skills
- 4-H
- Academic buoyancy
- Active citizenship
- Adaptive performance
- Coping
- Emotion work
- Emotional intelligence
- Emotional labor
- Emotional literacy
- Emotional self-regulation
- Empathy
- Family resilience
- Four Cornerstone Model of Emotional Intelligence
- Golden Rule
- Home economics
- Interpersonal emotion regulation
- Kitchen hack
- Life hack
- Life skills
- Life skills-based education
- Listening
- Moral development
- Parenting
- People skills
- Personal boundaries
- Psychological literacy
- Psychological resilience
- Self-defense
- Social intelligence
- Social skills
- Social thinking
- Soft skills
- TVET (technical and vocational education and training)
- Theory of multiple intelligences
- Time management
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_hack
Also known as Life hacking, Life hacks, Lifehack, Lifehackers, Lifehacking, Lifehacks.