About
The Mission
To inform you on how to streamline and get more out of your life using technology, outsourcing, crowdsourcing, and other lifehacks.
Press
Online Media and Blogs: Chicago Sun-Times, BeaconNewsOnline.com, So Good Blog, Lisa Sabin-Wilson’s Blog, Suburban Chicago News, ComputerShopper.com
Television: Alhurra i-Tech
Writers
Chris Cairns — Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude graduate from Penn State, management consultant, entrepreneur, certified project manager, Ultimate Fighting Champ over grappling dummy, and founder and editor of this blog. (LinkedIn, Facebook)
Russell Scott — Graduate of Penn State (undergrad.) and Georgetown (grad. school), former Director of Presidential Writers for the White House, protector of America’s homeland, Hemingway aficionado, and distinguished writer for this blog.
Luke McKinney — An Irishman abroad in Toronto, Luke has two master’s degrees in physics, a PC resembling 2001′s monolith, and a phone so smart it can wear a dinner jacket. Luke has turned “researching cool stuff” into a job and currently writes about technology, science, food, drink, solar power, comedy, and video games — so he needs to work smarter just to fit it all into the day. You can find information about Luke at LukeMcKinney.org.
Michael Kwan — A freelance writer and professional blogger based out of Vancouver, Canada, Michael focuses primarily in the areas of consumer electronics, entrepreneurship, and personal development. He also graduated with a Psychology degree from the University of British Columbia. Find out more about Michael, his freelance writing services and his personal blog at MichaelKwan.com.
Past Contributors
Maneesh Sethi, Thursday Bram, Martha Cooney, Samar Owais, Lauren Jacobs, Christine Stoddard, Tammy McKillip, Chad A. Hagy
Smartlife Terminology
Life Automation: Life Automation holds two slightly different, but related meanings for us here at Smartlife. First, it serves as an umbrella term that refers to the myriad of twenty-first-century personal solutions (e.g., outsourcing, crowdsourcing, household robots, personalized web services, and so on) that enable us to make our lives significantly more efficient, effective, productive, simplified, rewarding, and stress-free. (Life Automation = modern solutions for streamlining and improving our lives.) Second, it connotes an ideal state of being where we spend “99.9%” of our time, energy, and money on only those things that add value to our lives. Anything that doesn’t is automatically (or semi-automatically) taken care of for us — by someone else or by some technological means — freeing us to live, work, and pursue happiness as we see fit. (Life Automation = a life goal worth pursuing.)
