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This is a great post, but I'm confused about some nuances of the terminology. What differentiates a mindhack from other productivity techniques? Is the pomodoro technique a "mindhack"? "Hack" seems to imply that it's a sort of quick and dirty fix, which is unattractive to me.
As a programmer, "Hack" has the connotation of a clever exploit of existing mechanics. It also has the connotation you specify, but I'd argue that the systematically flawed nature of humans requires us to employ such hacks (accepting that they are not ideal, but also that anything we replace them with is also likely to be a hack)