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Ask HN: Low Effort but Useful Activities
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#13Pick up garbage at a local semi-wild area/walking path. Pay attention to nature and how the seasons change, as you pick up garbage. Enter trees and animals you spot into the iNaturalist app.
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#14Exercise.
That's a good one. I was thinking more along the lines of something low effort that I could do at a desk or on a couch that will still lead me to improving a skill of some sort.
Exercise while sitting down. Curls? Tricep pull-downs? If you do a bunch of squats, you could still be sitting half the time but getting fitness xp the other half.
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#15Without sweating the details, you could focus a bit on avoiding the annoying high-effort but useless activities that seem to come up too often under emergency conditions if you don't watch out :\
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#16Exercise.
Also just stretching, attempting balance, dance drills, etc.
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#17Cooking. You start by following recipes, and slowly absorb the techniques and taste into your daily life.
You can start cooking relatively cheaply. I do remember having sharp knifes and a good cutting board, some decent pans and you'll have a good time.
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#18Pick up garbage at a local semi-wild area/walking path. Pay attention to nature and how the seasons change, as you pick up garbage. Enter trees and animals you spot into the iNaturalist app.
I would generalize it to seeing trash in your daily walk. Not saying to to grab every piece of garbage, but even just one piece of trash tossed/recycled appropriately would make a difference.
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#19Currently it's photography for me.
I'm documenting graffiti a lot, but also taking pictures of other urban/nature/landscape scenes.
Took ten thousands of photos in the past years with a full-frame camera to the point that wielding the camera is second nature.
Also learnt editing raw files with a professional tool and trying to improve on it.
I hate taking photos with my smartphone now.