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Applying Unix Philosophy to Personal Productivity

lifehacker.com — While I'm at best a novice student of Unix philosophy and its rules for designing great software, several tenets are worth thinking about when you're designing your productivity system. Many of the rules that apply to writing great code also apply to writing down tasks and projects that you'll actually carry out instead of put off.

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  • InfodivaMLIS, on 01/29/2008, -8/+2cd
    cd dirname
    mkdir
    pwd
    ls -l
    exit
  • gifflen, on 01/29/2008, -10/+4sudo rm -rf /
    • usrlocalbin, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1Real men use root. Sudo is for sissys.
  • mrtibbs309, on 01/29/2008, -1/+4./win_lottery

    ...damn
    • luigi1015, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1I'd like the source code for the working version if anyone has it.
  • aldenhg, on 01/29/2008, -8/+3dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/zero
    The article says clarity is better than cleverness, but how is that command clearer than it is clever? Tell a newbie to do that and throw a su or sudo in front of it and they've hosed their first partition. Unix and all the *nixes are great, but don't go bible thumping about expanding the theory to every aspect of your life when it isn't applicable.
  • smacksaw, on 01/29/2008, -4/+2Just live with your family and expect everyone else to fix all of the issues with your life.
  • shankarganesh, on 01/29/2008, -1/+2shutdown -t now
    • schestowitz, on 01/29/2008, -4/+2Why, what's wrong? Kernel panic again?
  • NestorZX, on 01/29/2008, -3/+1The most important thing for being productive is to find a way to stop forgetting stuff. That is you gotta write everything down into some kind of a system. Why did I choose a Web-based tool for a system?
    1- my stuff is there anytime, even if I leave my notebook at home
    2 - I can look through my stuff from any computor
    3 - it reminds me of my dead-lines!
    By the way, my tool is Wrike.com What's yours?
  • funsac22, on 01/29/2008, -1/+4cron runs my life...
  • holzp, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1There is actually a far superior book on the unix philosophy out there, I stumbled on it in a bookstore, surprised so few geeks know about it.

    "The Unix Philosophy" by Mike Gancarz circa 1995. Great read!
    http://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Philosophy-Mike-Gancarz ...
  • jlungu, on 01/29/2008, -0/+2 % make love
    Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.
  • Philluminati, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1There is a saying...."Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reimplement it poorly."
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