Life Hacks 110 | Modern Wisdom Podcast 115
Chris Williamson (host), Jonny (guest), Yusef (guest), Guest (guest), Narrator, Narrator
In this episode of Modern Wisdom, featuring Chris Williamson and Jonny, Life Hacks 110 | Modern Wisdom Podcast 115 explores playful Life Hacks, Productivity Tactics, and Diversifying Happiness Sources This Modern Wisdom 'Life Hacks' episode mixes light-hearted banter with genuinely useful tips on productivity, health, travel, and lifestyle design. Chris Williamson, Johnny, and Yusuf trade practical hacks ranging from email scheduling, browsers, and design apps, to flossing, mobility work, and social media boundaries.
Playful Life Hacks, Productivity Tactics, and Diversifying Happiness Sources
This Modern Wisdom 'Life Hacks' episode mixes light-hearted banter with genuinely useful tips on productivity, health, travel, and lifestyle design. Chris Williamson, Johnny, and Yusuf trade practical hacks ranging from email scheduling, browsers, and design apps, to flossing, mobility work, and social media boundaries.
They repeatedly circle back to deeper themes: reducing over-reliance on any single identity or activity, deliberately building multiple sources of happiness, and managing digital overwhelm.
Alongside the silliness (toilet descaling, thong anxiety, bizarre bodily anecdotes), there are serious discussions about tech privacy, physical resilience, and structuring life to be more robust against stress and setbacks.
The tone is irreverent but insightful, offering a blend of concrete tools and broader mindset shifts for living a more balanced, efficient life.
Key Takeaways
Diversify your personality and life domains to reduce fragility.
Don’t tie your identity to a single role or pursuit (e. ...
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Use Gmail’s schedule send and undo send to manage communication better.
Scheduling emails allows you to work whenever you like but have messages land at optimal times (end of workday, once a week, etc. ...
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Leverage simple environment tweaks to control phone and social media use.
Rules like ‘only use my phone while standing’ or banning the phone from the bedroom/kitchen create friction that reduces mindless scrolling. ...
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Use robust tools and apps to offload mental and creative work.
High-impact examples include Mous-style protective phone cases, Canva and Unfold for instant professional-looking graphics, and The Ready State for structured mobility routines. ...
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Track key health metrics to guide training and recovery decisions.
Devices like Whoop and integrated platforms like Apple Health can combine step counts, heart rate, HRV, sleep, and meditation data. ...
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Small health investments compound over time (flossing, moisturizing, mobility).
Daily habits like flossing or water-flossing (for gum health and inflammation), using a suitable facial moisturizer from your 20s/30s, and structured mobility work may not yield dramatic short-term changes but significantly influence long-term resilience and appearance.
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Exploit consumer and legal frameworks for travel and household efficiency.
For serious flight delays, you can reclaim expenses and compensation (sometimes up to several hundred euros) and even go through specialist claim firms that take a cut but handle the process. ...
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Notable Quotes
“Definitely one of the things that makes people weak is an over-reliance on any one thing.”
— Chris
“If you have a shit gym session and a bad day at work, and you’ve got nothing else, who fucking cares?”
— Johnny
“Have something where you just go into a different world for an hour and you’re progressing in that world as well as the other ones.”
— Johnny
“The times in my life where catastrophes hit more easily is when I haven’t hedged my life across multiple domains.”
— Chris
“I think definitely one of the things that makes people weak is over-reliance on any one thing, and that includes a person.”
— Chris
Questions Answered in This Episode
How can someone practically identify when their identity has become over-concentrated in one domain (like work, a sport, or a relationship), and what first steps can they take to diversify?
This Modern Wisdom 'Life Hacks' episode mixes light-hearted banter with genuinely useful tips on productivity, health, travel, and lifestyle design. ...
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To what extent should people trust consumer health-tracking tools (like Whoop or Apple Health) when deciding to adjust training, and where is the line between useful data and over-optimization?
They repeatedly circle back to deeper themes: reducing over-reliance on any single identity or activity, deliberately building multiple sources of happiness, and managing digital overwhelm.
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How do you balance ‘clever’ hacks that exploit system loopholes (like the Costa coffee trick) with ethical considerations and the long-term impact on your character?
Alongside the silliness (toilet descaling, thong anxiety, bizarre bodily anecdotes), there are serious discussions about tech privacy, physical resilience, and structuring life to be more robust against stress and setbacks.
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In an age of pervasive tech and data collection, what’s a realistic privacy strategy for someone who wants convenience but is concerned about Google/Facebook-style surveillance?
The tone is irreverent but insightful, offering a blend of concrete tools and broader mindset shifts for living a more balanced, efficient life.
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What would a robust personal ‘happiness buffet’ look like for different personality types, and how often should people update or audit that list as their life circumstances change?
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Transcript Preview
It's life hacks 110?
All those hacks.
How many life hacks?
I've got shit loads, mate. I've got a big, big pot of life hacks. He hasn't even got any life hacks. Mate, you're, you don't even have any. What are you doing? Definitely one of the, the things that makes people weak is a over reliance on any one thing.
Every time I've got a taxi that isn't Uber, they've been racist and, uh-
To who? You? If you use one of the self-serve Costa coffee machines you can fit a large coffee into a medium cup then you only get charged for a medium.
That is stealing.
It's also shit coffee.
Can you ejaculate without an erection?
Anyone who's listening, can you tell us if you've ejaculated without an erection?
I know someone that, uh, had a poo and came. (laughs)
(laughs)
At code on top, top code.
Thousands of people watching you and you've just m- you've pulled it out the bag. Ladies and gentlemen welcome back. I'm joined by Johnny and Yusuf from propanefitness.com. It's life hacks 110?
All those hacks.
How many life hacks?
I think it's probably about 250.
50?
250.
Yeah.
25 per episode.
This is why I don't have any.
You've run out. Johnny's run out of life hacks to say, but it's okay, it's all right. Me and Yusuf have got loads and you can just-
I'll just talk about them.
You're here for the, here for the ride.
I think we will grease the groove and then Johnny will be like, "Ah, you did 10."
I'll under pop in the most.
Uh, so if you're new-
Let's just hot potato Johnny.
No.
No. (laughs)
Not yet. Uh, if you're new to life hacks it is our most popular series on modern wisdom, tools, principles, products for a productive and efficient life. And this episode is brought to you by Total Performance. It is an online course which delivers daily workouts and training, functional movements but they're physique focused. I actually filmed the mobility, uh, course for them which was loads of fun. Uh, so you'll be doing functional style movements but with a broey twist which is really what everyone wants to do. So head to totalperformance.co.uk and follow the link, uh, to sign up or you can go to the show notes below and you'll get seven days of programming for free. So you can just go try it out and rinse them for seven days of, of training, get swollen that. On to-
So Johnny, why don't you start us off? (laughs)
Johnny, why don't you start us off? I will do one. This is actually the first life hack that I've featured which has been officially submitted by a listener and it's mint.
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