Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

quanticdev.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

81–90 of 340 posts

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

#81

Post by shantly »

BeetleB wrote: post #67
tempsy wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do they have 401Ks or pensions or other retirement accounts? Then they have stock or bonds.

FYI less than half of American workers have access to a 401K plan. Less than 60% have access to any retirement plan.

And for unfathomable (haha, well, is it really though?) reason retirement accounts are set up to mostly benefit people with very high wages whose employers (gotta have an employer, too, or arrange things so you're your own employer—man is this dumb, it's as if it's set up to disadvantage the poor and middle class) also provide a high match rate. Meanwhile most folks are lucky to get a 1 or 2% match, leaving them way under the max possible cap even if they put as much in as they can, personally, per year.

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

#82

Post by katzgrau »

Gratitude. Look around you and consider all of the things that are going well for your. Your nice remote gig, your fridge full of your favorite beer, the sunny day outside, your healthy family.

Do that at the start of every day and really meditate on awesome it is that you have those things. Sincerely and quietly thank whoever you feel is responsible for them.

You'd be amazed how that 3 minute exercise changes your perspective.

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

#83

Post by ohyes »

cgufus wrote: post #36

One thing i‘m missing is a bit a generic one, but here goes: What are the principles that make a democracy? (e.g. freedom of opinion, freedom of press, separation of powers a.k.a. checks and balances, Rule of Law etc.)

You can get a PhD in that subject.

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

#85

Post by buboard »

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?

it's also a different "way" of working with text: it feels like photoshop, or a game, with the keyboard being your joystick. The command keystrokes are as compressed as can be, and having regexps literally at your fingertips all the time helps maximize their benefit.

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

#86

Post by shantly »

Insanity wrote: post #68
nkrisc wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is more valuable than it might seem. I'd wager many people couldn't even sit still for an hour in a room by themselves with nothing but their own thoughts.

Does it count if you lie awake in bed for an hour unable to sleep because of rumination? Because in that case, I'm sure plenty of people do it at some point. But what helps me is taking walks. You're alone with your thoughts, but the act of walking through nature is stimulating for more positive thinking, from my experience anyway.

> Does it count if you lie awake in bed for an hour unable to sleep because of rumination? Because in that case, I'm sure plenty of people do it at some point.

Heh, shit, if that counts I "meditate" for an hour or more a couple times a week. It's absolutely horrible.

[EDIT] in fact, running with that, most of my life has been a struggle to "meditate" less for the sake of my own health and sanity. I'm way down from the every single night for like two damn hours of ages ~7-16!

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

#88

Post by criddell »

02abhishekjain wrote: post #79
fbnlsr wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm always skeptical of this claim (and yes I do know vim fairly well). Programming isn't that much typing. For every burst of typing there's probably an equally long or longer lull where you are leaning back and looking at the screen or sketching something out on paper.

If your productivity is limited by how fast you can type then you are either a far, far better programmer than most people or your skills are being under utilized.

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

#89

Post by melling »

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…

The book was released today.

https://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Habits-Changes-Change-Everything...

I wrote some educational apps for language learning. Are there techniques that I could use to help and motivate my users?

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

#90

Post by bsanr2 »

tempsy wrote: post #40
Moodles wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I know. They don’t understand what they’re doing very well though. Education will affect their net worth massively.

There’s a difference if you’re sitting on $100K in cash earning nothing or a few thousand to use for living costs. If the latter then investing in stocks is actually not very prudent.

Confirming. In college, I received what I thought was a decent windfall for a young adult (and what was roughly what people say should be enough to "get started" investing). I invested it. This was just after the rally post-recession had hit its apex. Fast-forward 3 years later, when I've been laid off. Well, now I need that money, but the stock is worth less than when I bought it. I don't make enough to itemize taxes, so I can't even do anything with the loss. Welp.

I'd have been better off just letting it sit in a bank. When you're a normal American - increasingly lower-"middle class," if that, these financial schemes are worthless to you. You're in perpetual survival mode.

But try to convince wealthy capitalists to pay the average worker enough to allow them to actually be in control of their financial destiny. You'll be laughed out of the room.

Post reply on HN