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Dustin Wax

Dustin M. Wax is a past contributing editor and project manager at Lifehack. He is the Executive Director at the Burlesque Hall of Fame. He is also the author of Don’t Be Stupid: A Guide to Learning, Studying, and Succeeding at College" and editor of "Anthropology at the Dawn of the Cold War: The Influence of Foundations, McCarthyism, and the CIA".

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How to Improve Your Spelling Skills

Fair or not, your spelling skills are used throughout your life to evaluate you as a person. Several months ago, the results of a study of Fortune 500 human resource employees were published, saying that of the people th

Index Card Hacks

I love index cards. I'd like to blame Merlin Mann and his hipster PDA for this obsession, but I don't use a hipster PDA and still I find myself unable to pass the index card rack at Office Depot without stopping for a lo

Rico Clusters: An Alternative to Mind Mapping

I'm not a big fan of mind mapping, though I concede that it does have its uses. Recently, I learned of a different approach to brainstorming that seems both more practical and better grounded in the way the mind works th

What to Do When It's All Too Much

Things have been pretty hectic around here. We lifehackistes talk about and write about productivity as a way of dealing with the everyday distractions and time-sinks that prevent us from getting our important work done

How to Read a Painting

Art is a great status symbol in modern society and because of that it can be quite intimidating to the casual viewer. For many the first impulse is to blow it off, to see it as a worthless plaything for the rich and bori

Advice for Students: How to Read Like a Scholar

Gideon at Scholastici.us had some advice for students recently, saying that when it comes to scholarly reading, there really is no substitute for hard work, for actually sitting down and reading . Most the time in school

A Basic Guide to Thrift Store Shopping

We live in expensive times. As prices go up and up and up (gas is hovering around $3.00 a gallon across the U.S., milk is expected to top $5.00 a gallon before the end of the year, and so on), even the normal discount st

Don't Be Eeyore

One of the barriers to a happy, effective life is the way that we create negativity in our daily affairs. We swap stories of adversity -- the store clerk that was rude to you, the boss that never recognizes your contribu

Becoming a Great Step-Dad

The biggest change I made this year, and maybe in my life, is becoming a step-dad. Moving in with my partner meant making a commitment to her three children, a commitment that turned out to mean a heck of a lot more afte