I agree the term life-hacks has lost all meaning.<p>For me what destroyed it was a video about home-decorating 'life-hacks', and one was basically 'have a laundry chute' - great if you have one, but basically pointless otherwise as its almost impossible to retrofit to a house (or at least a standard UK home).<p>It was at that point I realised that to many people 'life hacks' are just 'things which are cool/I like' and not, as I understood, optimising your life (whatever that means).
I don't understand all these highly specific micro-sites that popped up on Stackechange.<p>Part of what makes Stackoverflow good is that it covers <i>multiple</i> subject areas, attracting many eyeballs from many different areas, and thereby having a huge amount of momentum from network effects and "social gravity".<p>Meanwhile all these other little sites are way too specific and have accordingly very small user bases. For example, there was no need to have separate sites for Stats, Data Science, Open Data, and AI. Nor does it make sense to have Software Recommendations be separate from Superuser. It just hurts the smaller communities IMO by driving fragmentation, and (horror of horrors) leads to duplicated questions across multiple sites. So much for being a high-quality archive of knowledge! More like a feudal kingdom of squabbling lords.<p>Maybe I'm just a misinformed outsider and there are good reasons for this pattern. But as a general user and former frequent-answer-er, I don't get it.
Some true gems right there ;-)<p><a href="https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/25085/any-way-i-can-get-vomit-out-of-my-pants-while-at-work" rel="nofollow">https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/25085/any-way-...</a>
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