Workhacks and Livehacks

How To Get Through A Big Pile Of New Music

August 25, 2010
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Right now I’m working through a playlist of several hundred tracks from different sources: Email attachments, CD rips, RSS feeds, Etc. A lot of this listening is a job. And like any job, I’ve thought about how to organize and streamline it. It would take a lot of time and screen shots to go through [...]

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Stuff I use: How to record and transcribe interviews quickly with cheap or free software

August 11, 2009
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I like finding computer-based ways to do my job cheaper and faster. Most of these methods are to cover up for my natural procrastination: using hotkeys, text inserters, autoresponders, and capture tools helps make up for the time I spent Googling “child riding boa constrictor.” I really, really love finding this stuff, but I never [...]

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