Couple examples for me: - writing a blog post - learning countries of the world and their locations
Ask HN: What short activities/projects have had the highest yield in your life?
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Long projects can obviously have high returns, but what have you done in less than, say, 5-10 hours, that’s had an outsized (positive) impact in your life? Can be in terms of satisfaction, or something more pragmatic.
Re: Ask HN: What short activities/projects have had the highest yield in your life?
#2Probably more like 30 hours, but learning to touch type has been a tremendous benefit.
Re: Ask HN: What short activities/projects have had the highest yield in your life?
#3Leaving unsatisfactory jobs is probably the biggest one.
Also touch typing although I’m still getting used to doing it properly.
Learning Haskell, ok took more than 5 hrs but takes 5 to get started!
Re: Ask HN: What short activities/projects have had the highest yield in your life?
#4Probably more like 30 hours, but learning to touch type has been a tremendous benefit.
What the hell is touch typing?
Re: Ask HN: What short activities/projects have had the highest yield in your life?
#5Probably more like 30 hours, but learning to touch type has been a tremendous benefit.
What the hell is touch typing?
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#6Going through vimtutor two times increased my editing speed significantly.
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#7Learning Clojure and Emacs from the free online book Clojure for the Brave and True!
I can’t imagine second order effects learning a lisp will have on my life!
I think about coding completely differently even though I have barely written anything sizable in Clojure.