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Episode 12: A Conversation with Larry Zerner about Lifehacking for Lawyers
Posted by Meredith R Miller at 9/23/2008 
Categories: Technology, Web 2.0, Law Practice, Work/Life Balance
Categories: Technology, Web 2.0, Law Practice, Work/Life Balance
Today's podcast features a conversation with attorney Larry Zerner. Larry has an entertainment law practice in Los Angeles. (A practice area for which he is well-suited, given his frightening filmography).
The discussion is about Larry's "life hacks."
The term "life hack" was originally coined by a British journalist, Danny O'Brien. He polled a group of programmers (or, "overproductive alpha geeks") on their work processes and discovered that the most productive "geeks" had developed scripts or shortcuts to get their work done. Originally, the term referred to these programmers' tricks to weed through the information overload and organize data. Now, the term has expanded to describe any method of simplifying life, cutting through information overload or getting work done more efficiently -- and not only to produce more work, but to create more recreation time.
The term "life hack" was originally coined by a British journalist, Danny O'Brien. He polled a group of programmers (or, "overproductive alpha geeks") on their work processes and discovered that the most productive "geeks" had developed scripts or shortcuts to get their work done. Originally, the term referred to these programmers' tricks to weed through the information overload and organize data. Now, the term has expanded to describe any method of simplifying life, cutting through information overload or getting work done more efficiently -- and not only to produce more work, but to create more recreation time.Noticeably absent in the blogosphere has been any discussion of life hacks for lawyers, and that's where Larry comes in. In this podcast, he talks about some of his favorite life hacks. Some of the techie tools he mentions: IWantSandy, Sugarsync, Grand Central, and Jott.
Topics include: cutting through the e-mails, eliminating phone tag, protecting and storing data, dueling computer monitors, a virtual personal assistant, and other life hacks that lawyers may come to find that they can no longer live without.
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