Life Hacking

A collection of 23 posts

DIY

How to recover an unresponsive iPhone

Learn to recover an unresponsive iPhone with a step-by-step guide, including using Finder on your Apple device to restore your phone and manage data loss risks effectively.

Ai

Revolutionizing User Interaction: Unveiling ChatGPT's New Voice and Image Capabilities

OpenAI just announced two major features inside ChatGPT. Now available is Voice and Image recognition and this article covers all the benefits, use cases, and risks with using ChatGPT with Image and Voice recognition.

business Featured

How Obsidian Became My Supercharged Second Brain

Discover how Obsidian has revolutionized my personal knowledge management system and supercharged my note-taking. Explore the features and benefits of Obsidian as a second brain, and learn why Obsidian is the best note-taking app available.

business

How the magic of moving in a W Shape helped my Public Speaking

When presenting on stage, the magic of movement and gestures allows you to connect with your audience and ensure your message lands. The magic of the W shape presentation will take your presenting to the next level.

Life Hacking

2022 Retrospective 2022 and Goals/Predictions for 2023

There is no beating around the bush about 2022; it was damn hard! 2022 challenged me professionally, physically, and organizationally. But, at the same time, we had some great highlights to celebrate the small wins. 2022 will go down in history as unique that we finally came out of the

startup

Apple Freeform vs Miro

A review of the collaboration canvas tools Apple Freeform and Miro. Both tools allow for brainstorming with virtual post-it notes with others to structure ideas visually. This article compares Apple Freeform with Miro.

random

2021 in Review

Another Brian Christner year in review highlighting what went well, improvements, and wish list for 2022. Let's get started with 2022.

books

Book Review - The Practice: Shipping Creative Work

A complete review of the new Seth Godin book The Practice Shipping Creative Work. A great book for those looking for inspiration or need a recharge to get going.

books

Book Review - Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story

How storytelling is one of the most important trait to connect and persuade people. Peter Guber gives us the basics of story telling with amazing examples from A listers to World Leaders.

docker

Why I created online courses

How I transitioned from presenting courses and workshops to converting to online courses.

Life Hacking

Making Reading Books a Habit

Time to make reading a habit, start being more creative, and start shipping creative work.

Life Hacking

Third Time on the Front Page of Hacker News

A reflection on how three of my blog articles made it to the front page of Hacker News.

Life Hacking

The Why Quality

Sometimes the easiest way to attain information is just by asking Why. Start with Why and unlock insightful information.

Life Hacking

Looking forward to 2020

2020 is now upon us. It is up to us to start making things happen. Here's my quick recap of 2019 and looking forward to 2020 things to do.

startup

Limit your Tech Toolset

It's easier than ever to buy new tools. Stop, first evaluate existing tools, do some information gathering, and combine the number of tools you have.

startup

I Broke It

It's easy to get swept up in daily life. But I broke something that was important to me and that is sharing information.

Life Hacking

5 Tips to Blog Smarter, not Harder

I started blogging seriously back in 2007. My first successful blog was a motorcycle blog that I intended to write primarily about my motorcycle rides and projects. The blog 2WheelTuesday which was recently deleted morphed into something much greater. It actually morphed into a small business. I learned a lot

Life Hacking

Great Day to Be Alive

Playing American Football growing up I had a coach which was a bit looney. Actually, all of my coaches were a bit crazy but this one was king of the crazies. Before the start of every practice he would yell at the top of his lungs "It's

startup

Time to Make Something

I'm going through a internal battle of what project I should start next. I've tried all the tricks of making short lists, pro/con comparisons and just about every other trick available. Time to close all my open apps and just Make Something. Don't

Life Hacking

Stop Getting Distracted and Get Shit Done

It’s getting harder and harder to dedicate myself to a single project. With the overwhelming amount of information that is thrown at me daily via Facebook, Twitter [https://twitter.com/idomyowntricks], email, Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com] and just about all cool projects on GitHub. How does one

random

How to create your Success Definition

I've been looking in all the wrong places when trying to find and be successful when in fact it is all around me. The first thing that used to come to mind when defining success is financial success, entrepreneurship, or fame i.e. being a movie star or

Mountain Bike

2015 in Review and Goals for 2016

As I look back on 2014 year in review/2015 Goals post [https://www.brianchristner.io/2014-in-review-and-goals-for-2015/] I'm quite happy with what I've accomplished. However not a goal or accomplishment, the birth of our son Flynn was the biggest blessing I could ever imagine. Everything else

Life Hacking

Resuscitating my Morning Routine

My morning routine probably sounds like most people. Wake up in the morning, eat breakfast, drink lot's of coffee, consume Twitter and FB feeds until I have to make a mad dash out the door. I really felt my morning routine was just a waste of energy and