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First of all, a general remark: Less Wrong Is Not Lifehacker. I would prefer LW not to become dominated by, so to speak, mundane self-help. Not because there's anything wrong with mundane self-help (quite the contrary, I think it's an excellent thing) but because there is lots of it out there already and I think material of that sort belongs on LW only if there's something genuinely new/different about it in an LW-relevant way. For instance, a strong empirical focus with actual evidence that the thing works; or (maaaybe) advice that's specifically relevant to exceptionally intelligent compumatsci types with akrasia issues. (I'm not convinced the last of those should be enough on its own.)
In what follows, "LWINL" is short for a re-recitation of the foregoing paragraph. (In particular, it doesn't mean "this definitely doesn't belong here", but something more like "this doesn't belong here unless there are special reasons why it does that aren't yet apparent to me".)
(I have a vague feeling that we once had open threads with a self-help-y theme. I forget whether we still do. That might be a good place for some things that aren't so exceptionally good or LWish to merit posting as articles but that are still a notch more LW-appropriate than your typical Lifehacker article.)
One other general remark: My feeling is that most of these things would be better handled as blog post + link in open thread than as LW posts.