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And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about what happens after you've used life hacks to become fully optimized

in the final edition of our life hacking mini series with Professor

Joseph Riegel. You'll also learn why we could explain some of the universe's most

unexplainable characteristics using white holes, but only if they actually exist.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

You know we love Life Hacks on this show, but it turns out Life Hacks cannot solve all your problems.

As you will learn in today's final edition of our

hacking Thursdays miniseries. We're joined by Joseph Regal, an associate professor

of Communication Studies at Northeastern University and author of the new book,

Hacking Life, Systematized Living, and its Discontents.

In this clip, we'll put a neat little bow on our conversation

by getting a summary of how Professor Regal actually categorizes

life hacks and where people sometimes end up once their lives are fully optimized.

Well in each chapter of my book I have for instance productivity time health

Relationships and even hacking meaning trying to make sense of things when you really realize that even if you hack your productivity

and you get rid of all of your clutter and you optimize your relationships, we still face loss

and suffering and so how do you deal with that even and of course these people

have a very particular ethos. I call it the hacker ethos, very experimental, systematizing,

individualistic, and optimizing and they approach everything in life, including

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