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What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

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Re: What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

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Post by robert_tweed »

ForHackernews wrote: post #5

I will tell you from experience that one cannot learn "cooking" in a single hour, any more than one can learn "music" in an hour.

This is true, but you could probably make quite a lot of progress with "Cooking in Ten Minutes" by Édouard de Pomiane.

Some reviews of this book point to the recipes being dull compared to some newer books, which while true, misses the point entirely. This is a book that introduces the fundamental concepts of cooking with simple recipes that can be made in 10 minutes. It may be the single best cookery book ever written. It won't teach you a bunch of recipes so much as it will teach you how to think about cooking.

It's also very short, so you could probably read the whole thing in an hour (and if you pause near the start to boil some water, you might even cook something too).

Re: What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

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Post by kamek »

fbnlsr wrote: post #64
timvisee wrote: post #34

Vim. I think it can be in the list as well. It takes a long time to properly learn. But one hours is defiantly enough to get to know the main Vim bindings, to be as productive as in other editors. In the end it makes you super productive.

Serious question: I keep seeing Vim thrown up and down like it's the holy grail. I've been using VS Code for two years maybe now, and I don't see how Vim could help me be a better/more productive coder. What am I missing?

To put it simply, it's just a very efficient way to manipulate text with a keyboard. Once you get accustomed to it, writing and especially modifying text without it seems laborious, almost like you're writing with your wrong hand.

The problem is, the opposite is true until you reach some level of proficiency. Until then, vim is hard to get used to.

I know I haven't provided a concrete answer, but many blog posts have been written on the matter. I personally started learning vim by running through vimtutor once a day as part of a New Year's resolution about ten years ago.

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Post by Moodles »

astura wrote: post #65
tempsy wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What crowd are you in where most people have all their money in a savings account? That is borderline financial suicide.

They have all their money in checking probably because they don't have nearly enough money to invest. Those people would be much better off learning to either spend less, earn more, and get out of debt instead of learning about how to invest hypothetical money that they'll never have with their habits. I certainly didn't know a damn thing about index funds, investments, stock markets, etc until I actually had the ext…

In many cases they have enough to invest something but don’t. I also recommended the flowchart in my post above, not just index funds.

Re: What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

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Post by Insanity »

Moodles wrote: post #10

First aid is good. Also general investing in index funds like VTSAX and VTIAX. It is so simple, yet most people I run into on a regular basis just save their money in a checking account earning 0.01% APY. Follow the reddit personal finance flowchart. Learn about Roth and HSAs and ESPP and the benefits of diversification. We’re literally talking about multiples of your net-worth over your life if you invest compared t…

Not USA, but if you have a KBC in your country (a Belgian bank, but you'll find them in other EU countries) they offer a quite easy way to start investing in index funds.

Essentially, each time you use your debit card, they round up the amount you owe the shop, and put that in a special account. For each 10 euro in that account - they invest it.

So for example, let's say I go to the shops and pay 9.30 for groceries. Then I'd end up paying 10 euro to the shop, and 70c will go to the investment account. Once the investment account reached a multiple of 10 - it gets invested.

It's a way to slowly build up owning more funds.

Of course, you can also just put X euro in it to start of instead of waiting for the initial 10 euro. :P

edit: typos

Re: What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

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Post by deanebarker »

varjag wrote: post #12
jpxw wrote: post #8

Basic First Aid (CPR etc)

Among 'etc' I would recommend Heimlich maneuver in particular. Didn't really ever expect to use it, but ended up doing it on my own kid…

Me too. He was six at the time. A hard candy he took from a restaurant.

Re: What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

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Post by rb808 »

sunstone wrote: post #13

Why is it, exactly, that, as a rule of thumb, almost all people who start life poor and end up rich do it with real estate.

Only since the 70s when inflation was killed and interest rates started tumbling. The next 50 years wont be so kind, a lot of people will go back to poor.

Re: What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

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Post by 0xcafecafe »

alpaca128 wrote: post #53
ethanbond wrote: post #14

Taking this also as a bit of an Ask HN: Easily the Tiny Habits habit formation regime created by Stanford researcher BJ Fogg. A lot of the addictive design patterns you see in apps like Snapchat, Instagram, etc. are built off his research. Quite nefarious use of psychology for advertising/“engagement”, but the plus side is you can use the same strategies to build habits you want to build. Step 1: Consider the habit y…

In my case the flossing problem was solved by trying out certain rubber sticks made for that purpose. They're MUCH more convenient to use than the classic dental floss and make the whole process quicker, to a degree it took me almost no effort to consistently do it every day.

Same here! The reach was a Godsend for me.

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Post by 02abhishekjain »

fbnlsr wrote: post #64
timvisee wrote: post #34

Vim. I think it can be in the list as well. It takes a long time to properly learn. But one hours is defiantly enough to get to know the main Vim bindings, to be as productive as in other editors. In the end it makes you super productive.

Serious question: I keep seeing Vim thrown up and down like it's the holy grail. I've been using VS Code for two years maybe now, and I don't see how Vim could help me be a better/more productive coder. What am I missing?

The vim key bindings can help you write code faster and more efficiently. Try the vim plugin for vscode. It's pretty good.

Re: What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

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Post by [deleted] »

fbnlsr wrote: post #64
timvisee wrote: post #34

Vim. I think it can be in the list as well. It takes a long time to properly learn. But one hours is defiantly enough to get to know the main Vim bindings, to be as productive as in other editors. In the end it makes you super productive.

Serious question: I keep seeing Vim thrown up and down like it's the holy grail. I've been using VS Code for two years maybe now, and I don't see how Vim could help me be a better/more productive coder. What am I missing?

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