Published: Tue 30 July 2024
By Joseph Reagle
In social .
tags: hacking ethics rules
I just realized I never posted an abstract or draft on “Ethics and Rule
Breaking Among Life Hackers .” This followed Hacking
Life
https://reagle.org/joseph/2020/rules/ethic.html
Abstract : Life hacking is self-help for the digital
age. Its gurus recommend that life—including yourself and others—be
treated as a system of rules to be optimized or subverted. Self-help
authors Tim Ferriss (The 4-Hour Workweek) and James Altucher (Choose
Yourself) advise that the rules of social life be hacked so to “make the
impossible possible” and “get everything you want.” I analyze their
advice relative to the interplay of abiding versus subverting the spirit
or letter of a rule yields. This yields four different types of advice:
that rules be bent, broken, stretched, and exploited. I consider each
relative to the critiques of life hacking and Kant’s categorical
imperative: “can you also will that your maxim become a universal law?”
This effort yields a new avenue for engaging with popular culture, and
these distinctions can help those who wish to hack (life) ethically and
challenge those who do not.
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