Confessions of a recovering lifehacker
> Maybe all the time I spend looking for better ways to do things is keeping me from, well, doing things.<p>Eureka!<p>People are complicating their lives just to decomplicate later. It's a vicious cycle designed to keep the market flowing. Needs are created in real time, we don't even know why we need certain things any more. We live under the anxiety created by the excess of excess.<p>With 99% of the so called "life hacks", we're just trying to eliminate a problem that we created by another "life hack". Oh a nice trick to keep the iPhone doing X? Cool! Why did I need X in the first place again??? I don't remember. And the iPhone...why did I buy it? I just play a silly game and use the contacts list most of the time.<p>There is a:<p>99% chance you don't need your email available 24x7<p>99% chance you don't need a new car<p>99% chance you don't need a cell phone turned on 24x7<p>99% chance that 99% of the shit ton of information you gather daily will be thrown out of your brain in just a few weeks<p>99% chance you don't need a stupid GPS guiding what you do, where you drive<p>99.99% chance you don't really need a new iPad, iThis, iThat, HTC that, whatever<p>99% chance you don't need the extra U$ 1000 on your sallary<p>99% chance you didn't need to be tweeting or checking your email while there was a nice person sitting next to you while you waited at the airport<p>99% chance you don't need to be all you can be better richer faster more<p>This is why the world is turning into a bunch of control freaky, unhappy, lonely, greedy and unhealthy bunch of individuals.<p>I discovered this one day. I said fuck it and went for a walk at the park. Since then, I've done the same thing daily and I don't miss the other 1567 things I used to do on the Internet instead of having a silly walk at the park.