Alpha Geek Life hacks

11 Jan 2007 22:31 - (0) comments

From Cory Doctorow's running notes of a Danny O'Brien presentation:

Geeks write scripts to take apart dull, repetitive tasks. They'll spend 10h writing a script that will save 11h -- because writing scripts is interesting and doing dull stuff isn't.

I recognize this but wonder if the time saved is a bit too optimistic. :)

People do lots of webscraping. Scrape stuff and turn it into RSS. Lots of people do this with banking services -- to keep an eye on their accounts.

All geeks have a todo.txt file. They use texteditors (Word, BBEd, Emacs, Notepad) not Outlook or whathaveyou.

I've tried this all in one todo.txt file. Searching was easy. But I found it was hard to format/structure/prioritize. I'm sticking to my VoodooPad wiki and simple todo list.