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Hacking Happy
Fed up with the latest and greatest time management system? You're optimizing the wrong variable! It's time to start hacking your own happiness for happier hacking.
This book motivates you to maximize your levels of happiness rather
than false incentives like efficiency or productivity. It guides you through tested psychological techniques. Each chapter is an analogy to a programming or systems administration concept to help you grok it quickly.
You'll start with unit tests for your life, then design a specification
using scrum methodology. You'll learn how to log and debug the thoughts that cause negative feelings. Various algorithms, design patterns and sysadmin tools are adapted for use in happiness hacking.
Start optimizing for happiness today!
This book motivates you to maximize your levels of happiness rather
than false incentives like efficiency or productivity. It guides you through tested psychological techniques. Each chapter is an analogy to a programming or systems administration concept to help you grok it quickly.
You'll start with unit tests for your life, then design a specification
using scrum methodology. You'll learn how to log and debug the thoughts that cause negative feelings. Various algorithms, design patterns and sysadmin tools are adapted for use in happiness hacking.
Start optimizing for happiness today!
151 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 1, 2012
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