Doc Ott’s Life Hack Blog

Making your own Quill Pen
I once tried to learn how to do calligraphy. It didn’t work very well, but it would be cool to have a pen sitting on my desk with some ink in case I wanted to sign something official. This site details the how to. Looks pretty easy.

The Power of the Sleep Cycle
I have tried to cut down on my hours of sleep a few times in my life, with some success. It always came back to needing a motivation to get up early. I seem to be getting more motivation, so maybe I will try this…
Dangers of Sleep Hacking
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Procrastination Hack
I am a horrible procrastinator, especially not that I have a blog and a news aggregator. This looks like it would work great, especially tied to my less-sleep project…
Procrastination Dash
A similar, yet different method

MapMyRun
This is a cool program that will calculate the distance you have run as setup by simple mouse clicks on a Google Map.

I found this awesome site on How to Live Simple. It’s a easy to follow e-book that gives good suggestions to de-clutter your life and how to get more out of it. A must read for those of us who are too busy to live.

Benefits of Meditation
Here is a cool explanation as to why meditation is good for you. Good ideas there and the ‘net is loaded with meditation exercises and ways to get started using meditation.

As a chemistry professor I can see how I could actually USE some of these. This label generator site is pretty cool. Maybe I should make some buttons for my website using this tool.

Here is a cool site on how to do some relaxation exercises at work. It includes audio files to help with the sessions. Some cool ideas here.