{"id":2241,"date":"2017-10-10T13:13:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T13:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2017-10-10T21:56:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T21:56:42","slug":"lifehack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/2017\/10\/10\/lifehack\/","title":{"rendered":"#Lifehack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Food Network\u2019s Bev Weidner explores a profound question: \u201cCheese comes in slices, so why can&#8217;t peanut butter?\u201d You can watch her carefully unpack this wicked problem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T7DsHMga92g\">here<\/a>. Please also read the following comments &#8212; they had me rolling!<\/p><p><span class=\"alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2251\" src=\"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-12.23.45-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-12.23.45-AM.png 693w, https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-12.23.45-AM-300x116.png 300w, https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-12.23.45-AM-640x248.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2247 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-12.24.55-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"698\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-12.24.55-AM.png 698w, https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-12.24.55-AM-300x80.png 300w, https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-12.24.55-AM-640x171.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2252\" src=\"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-2.16.23-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"698\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-2.16.23-PM.png 698w, https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-2.16.23-PM-300x54.png 300w, https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-2.16.23-PM-640x116.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2250\" src=\"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-12.26.50-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"698\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-12.26.50-AM.png 698w, https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-12.26.50-AM-300x51.png 300w, https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-12.26.50-AM-640x109.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2253\" src=\"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-2.15.53-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"694\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-2.15.53-PM.png 694w, https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-2.15.53-PM-300x74.png 300w, https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-2.15.53-PM-640x158.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/span><\/p><p>Similar to this \u201cfood hack\u201d fail &#8212; what are some of the ways that designers try to hack all the wrong problems? Hacking is supposed to help optimize processes. In this scenario, however, making frozen peanut butter slices is clearly less optimal.<\/p><p>Does the time spent thinking about more effective ways to do something actually block our explorative nature and lead to aimless optimization?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is our society so obsessed with \u201clifehacks\u201d? 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