Golden Goals series: Adam Pash of Lifehacker on writing code and determination

This is one in a series of interviews of notable bloggers in the Zen Habits Golden Goals series.

Adam Pash is a freelance writer and budding programmer and web developer based in Los Angeles, California. Though his interests are varied, Adam spends the majority of his time working as Senior Editor for Lifehacker, a weblog with a focus on software, the internet, and productivity. I previously interviewed Gina Trapani of Lifehacker, and I was excited to get Adam to do the interview as well.

1) What would you consider your greatest achievement in the last few years? Feel free to add other achievements or goals if you’d like.

Definitely all the work I’ve done at Lifehacker. When I was hired on at Lifehacker in November ‘05, we were less than a year old and still very much finding our place in the blogosphere. Over the last year and a half, we’ve really hit our stride, consistently putting out really strong content. Of that content, I’m most proud of the work we’ve done in our original weekly features, like my Hack Attack series.

Golden Goals series, Round 3

Zen Habits will feature a special series of interviews this week — Round 3 of the Golden Goals series of interviews with notable bloggers. On the lineup this week:

• Adam Pash of Lifehacker
• Cyan Ta’eed of FreelanceSwitch
• Darren Rowse of ProBlogger
• Leon Ho of Lifehack.org
• Ririan of Ririan Project

I hope you enjoy this series as much as I have! We will return to regularly scheduled programming once we’ve run these interviews.

Others in the Golden Goals series:

•  Gina Trapani of Lifehacker
• Anne Zelenka of Web Worker Daily
• J.D. Roth of Get Rich Slowly
• Kyle Pott of Lifehack.org
• Mark Frauenfelder of bOING bOING
• Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project
• Trent of The Simple Dollar
• Alexander Kjerulf, the Happiness CEO
• David Seah of DavidSeah.com

Golden Goals: Anne Zelenka of Web Worker Daily on finding your place in the world

This is the ninth article in the Golden Goals series of interviews with notable bloggers about their goals, habits and productivity systems.

This is an unannounced bonus for the Golden Goals series, and one I’m very happy about: Anne Zelenka, editor of the excellent blog, Web Worker Daily. The blog addresses a new workforce — those who are connected to their jobs through the internet. From the About page:

Job security, forty hour weeks, two Martini lunches, ties, nylons and handwritten memos are now relics of the past, while freelancing, flex time, lattes, company t-shirts, jeans and email are de rigeur. An ‘office’ now includes idyllic campuses that can be lived in, well, to any sandy beach, rowdy bar or coffee roastery with Internet connections. … A new tribe of bedouin has evolved, with laptops instead of camels, hopping between wifi hotspots like oases. It is high time that net set should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies,and meet the jet set with a manifesto: Web Worker Daily. Because inspiration is meant to be shared.

Golden Goals: Alexander Kjerulf, the Chief Happiness Officer, on staying true to yourself

This is the eighth article in the Golden Goals series of interviews with notable bloggers about their goals, habits and productivity systems.

Alexander Kjerulf hails from Denmark, and since 2003 he has made happiness his living as a speaker, consultant and author. Alex presents, consults and conducts workshops on happiness at work at businesses and conferences all over the world. His previous clients include companies like PriceWaterhouseCoopers, The Danish Ministry of Economics, LEO Pharma, Novo, DaimlerChrysler and IBM. He just finished writing his first book titled Happy Hour is 9 to 5 - How to Love Your Job, Love Your Life and Kick Butt at Work, and gets 100,000 visitors a month on his blog, Chief Happiness Officer.

Golden Goals: Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project on taking the plunge

This is the seventh article in the Golden Goals series of interviews with notable bloggers about their goals, habits and productivity systems.

Gretchen Rubin is a published author working on a book, The Happiness Project –a memoir about how test-driving every principle, tip, theory, and scientific study she could find, whether from Aristotle or St. Therese or Martin Seligman or Oprah. Her blog, The Happiness Project, talks about these rules for living and reports on what works and what doesn’t. I definitely recommend you give it a read.